Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

I am presenting this verse in the King James Version but I looked at all the English translations. I found some translations capitalized the word Day. Some offered what that day might be; Christ’s return, the Day of the Lord, which are vague also as to what you might consider what those days mean, or when they will come.

I won’t be so bold as to offer up what “the day” means to you. Consider first that Paul wrote these words nearly two thousand years ago, to a people who are long dead. Where is this sense of urgency which Paul was trying to impart? If we look to what others say about the meaning of “the day” we can look to the scriptures to help define our sense of urgency.

Given that the word is given to all of us and we all are at different stages of maturity, growth, experience, and callings, isn’t the meaning different for each of us? That is the wonderful part about the word to be able to impart help to the reader as we change and our senses are further exercised. It means this to you today. It may mean something else to you tomorrow. What hasn’t changed once in all those years from its writing until your reading is the gathering together. The community of believers who love you, who live with you, who share everything you are going through today; that support system hasn’t changed even if the people in it have gone on and been replaced.

It doesn’t matter what you think “the day” is, we are here for you TODAY.

John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Sargent Shultz from Hogan’s Heroes has his signature line; “I know nothing.” He saw things which he didn’t want to see. Believing by faith is almost the opposite. You have faith to believe but we don’t really see do we? We understand because we believe but where does that believe come from?

The Spirit is not subject to us. He does not do our bidding. When He comes and what He does is for our good but is not subject to our wishes or desires. In fact His actions are often in opposition to our fleshly desires.

Have you ever considered that His absence in action is as much a message as His presence in action? We have a responsibility in this relationship to take care of our part. It is a cooperative relationship and if He is silent, then perhaps we should look around and see what it is that we have failed to do for Him and for each other.

Faith in motion is more likely to hear a word than if it were slumbering on the couch.