Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy. We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works. We should not stay away from our assembly. When we see the wars, poverty, wide-spread disease; when we see the divisions, hostility, even hatred in society and Church it is easy to lose hope. Things look bad and it’s not clear how they will get better. The author of the letter to the Hebrews must have lived in similar times for he keeps urging his readers toward hope. We are people of hope, he insists, because God is faithful. God has promised us peace and justice. He also proposes that we can engender hope in one another by encouraging “love and good works” and by participating in “our assembly,” that is by going to Church! The way to hold onto hope is to hold onto each other.
