Daily Reading for Tuesday January 19, 2021 FIRST READING "This hope, we hold it like a sure and solid anchor" the letter to the Hebrews (6, 10-20)

Daily Reading for Tuesday January 19, 2021 

FIRST READING 

"This hope, we hold it like a sure and solid anchor" 

the letter to the Hebrews (6, 10-20) 

Brothers, God is not unjust: he does not forget your action or the love you have shown towards him, by putting you at the service of the faithful and by holding on to it. Our desire is that each of you manifest the same eagerness until the end, so that your hope may be fully realized; do not become lazy, instead imitate those who by faith and perseverance obtain the promised inheritance.

When God made the promise to Abraham, that he could not be sworn by anyone greater than himself, he swore an oath by himself, and he said, I will bless you with blessings, and I will multiply your offspring. And so, by his perseverance, Abraham obtained what God had promised him. Men take an oath by a greater than themselves, and the oath is between them a guarantee which puts an end to all discussion; So God took the means of the oath when he wanted to show the heirs of the promise, even more clearly, that his decision was irrevocable.

God is thus irrevocably doubly committed, and it is impossible that God lied. This strongly encourages us, who have sought refuge in the hope that was offered to us and that we have seized. We hold this hope as a sure and solid anchor for the soul; she enters beyond the curtain, into the Sanctuary where Jesus entered for us as a precursor, he who became high priest of the order of Melkizedek for all eternity. 

The Word of the Lord 

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