FIRST READING We are the ones who receive the rest that God gives us, the ones who have faith. A Reading from the Book of Hebrews 4:1-5, 11

Daily Reading for Friday January 15, 2021 

FIRST READING 

We are the ones who receive the rest that God gives us, the ones who have faith. 

A Reading from the Book of Hebrews 4:1-5, 11 

Let us beware, then: since the promise never lapses, none of you must think that he has come too late for the promise of entering his place of rest.

We received the gospel exactly as they did; but hearing the message did them no good because they did not share the faith of those who did listen.

We, however, who have faith, are entering a place of rest, as in the text: And then in my anger I swore that they would never enter my place of rest. Now God's work was all finished at the beginning of the world;

as one text says, referring to the seventh day: And God rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing.

And, again, the passage above says: They will never reach my place of rest.

Let us, then, press forward to enter this place of rest, or some of you might copy this example of refusal to believe and be lost. 

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