The Exhorter
1/10/2010

Neglecting So Great a Salvation

We live in a world where we see neglect all around us. There is the nursing home or hospital where a family loved one sits or lies forgotten by their family. Hard to imagine mistreating your mother, father, brother or sister! Such a valuable relationship totally left unattended. God has given us the family to enjoy, to receive blessings from, and to find strength and encouragement. Yet, family members go neglected and forgotten.

Many other examples could be given to demonstrate how we are people who can neglect and ignore great blessings that God has given us. How can that happen? How can we possess a great and cherished gift, then not care for it and even forget all about it?

The Hebrew writer tells us how this can happen. He says that "we drift away" (Heb. 2:1). Neglect does not occur immediately. It is a slow movement that eventually leaves an important blessing totally forgotten. Consider how a new, beautiful house over time deteriorates and becomes uninhabitable. The owner gets busy doing other things. When the house needs repaired, it is left undone, and the neglect takes its toll to where a once prized house is condemned.

Please consider how important our salvation is it "first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will" (Heb. 2:3,4). Also, we understand the value of our salvation knowing it cost the death of the Son of God (Heb. 10:5-20).

How do we keep that which is so valuable before our face and never neglected? Earnestly heed or constantly consider the salvation God has given us. Treat this gift of God with great care and thanksgiving. Treasure it in our hearts and keep it in our memory by partaking of the Lord's Supper weekly. Share our salvation with others so that they might have the same blessings that we have in Christ. Constantly talk about salvation to keep it fresh and renewed in our minds, and this can occur through attending Bible study and worship with fellow brethren.

May God help us never to neglect our salvation! Ron Drumm

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