Hebrews 13:1-17
(Use the link below to read the verses.)
Growing
up there wasn’t anybody that I wanted to make proud of me more than my Father.
I desperately needed his love and approval, and I’d do anything to get it.
Before
my senior year of high school, my Dad got a job in a different state. Because I
wanted to finish school with my childhood friends, my parents made arrangements
for me to live with a family friend.
With
plans to leave soon, my parents came to the last football game that they would
ever see me play. The problem was that I spent most of my time on the bench.
Desperately
wanting to get into the game to do something special, the coach called my name.
I wanted to do something, anything to make my Dad notice me; to make him proud;
to make him stand up and yell, “That’s my son!”
Hebrews
13 gives us a lot of ways to please God. In the first paragraph alone, the
writer says to love one another; to show hospitality; to remember those that
are in prison;1 and to comfort those who are suffering.
He
also reminds us that God is always with us; that he will never leave us; that
he is the same “yesterday, today and forever”; and that Jesus suffered and died
for us to make us holy. And how are we to respond to who God is and what He has
done?
15 Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of
praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name. NLT
In
the moment of that high school football game, I would have run through a brick
wall for my Dad. Instead, I picked out an overweight defensive lineman who was
huffing and puffing about twenty yards from the ball carrier and leveled him with
my best block ever. My Dad never mentioned the play.
But
I have a Heavenly Father who is always with me; who loves me the same as He did
yesterday, today and tomorrow no matter what I do or don’t do; who loved me so
much that He sent His one and only son to die for me.
That’s
the Dad that I want to make proud of me.
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