Indeed

Hebrews 4:2 says For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

Here’s the crux of the whole matter.

We can go to church every week and hear the good news of God’s love for us.  We can sit in classes that instruct us in how to honor our husbands, how to love our neighbors, and how to trust in our Father.  We can even listen to musical lyrics that lift our souls in worship to the God who loves us completely, and unconditionally.

However, if we don’t have faith that rises in our hearts when we hear, the words that we have just listened to profit us nothing!

For some of us, weekly church attendance, signing up for classes, and moving to the music is all a bandaid, a fix-all, a soothing lotion that we rub on week after week, because  we’re so dry and sore from living life.

But what if…we rise up in faith that we attach to what we hear?  No longer will our activities in listening be a bandaid, although of course they will heal and soothe us.  But our activities will then be an offering of praise, thanksgiving, and adoration for the ONE we have now come to trust completely!

Indeed, we’ve heard the good news.  But what profit are we experiencing from all that we’re hearing?