Draw near

Read Hebrews 10

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,

 having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience

 and our bodies washed with pure water.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,

 for He who promised is faithful.

And let us consider one another

 in order to stir up love and good works,

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,

 as is the manner of some,

 but exhorting one another,

 and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

                                                                                                           Hebrews 10:22-25
This chapter of Hebrews covers a wide range of things.  It tells us, that the sacrifice of animals is insufficient.  That Christ’s death perfects the sanctified and the just by faith.
In the middle of it all, verses 22 to 25 makes the statement:
1. “let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith
2. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,
3. let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good work
4. not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.”
We all have a need to draw close to God with a true heart.  We need to hold onto what we believe.  In order to know what we believe we need to study the Word of God.
We also need a free flow of ideas and to know there are others out there, that believe as we do.  We can only do this, if we come together as a body.
We may disagree with one another on various things, but that should not stop us from coming together as believers to worship and serve God.
We need to be encouraging one another to keep on going, until the return of Christ. To evangelize, to teach, and to grow in Christ.
Due to our need to earn a living and tend to the basic necessities of life, the majority of us, cannot this side of heaven spend the majority of our time in church or among believers.  Still, we should want to.
Our passion should be to serve God in whatever way He would use us.  We should also have a yearning to be around God’s people to praise God with them.  To learn and simply fellowship with them.
Something to think about:
We need to get passionate for God and let Him use us.  “Forsake not the assembling of yourself,” But let’s not limit that to church, let’s get together at various places, and invite unsaved friends and neighbours as well as Christians to the meeting.
Perhaps take a none Christian with some other believers to a sports event, movie, theatre or other event.
What have you to loose. At the very least in doing so you’ve had a good time and planted a seed for Christ.