Christ's Law

[Olde Tymer]

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● Heb 13:5b . . and be content with such things as ye have.

Since the writer connected this instruction with avarice, I would have to say his
focus in this verse is on moderation; defined by Webster's as reasonable limits
and/or average; viz: avoiding extremes.

"He himself has said: I will never leave you nor forsake you. So we may boldly say:
The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can Man do to me?" (Heb 13:5-6)

Well, I should think thwarted domestic oil production, extravagant Federal
spending, runaway inflation, politicized business practices, the cancel culture, lock
downs, a foreign collusion hoax, election fraud, insane immigration policies, falsified
science, a compromised Food and Drug Administration, a Gestapo-style FBI,
outlawing perfectly safe and useful medications, creeping Socialism, Critical Race
Theory, suppressing second opinions, denying treatment, mandatory inoculations
with experimental vaccines, and perpetual masking easily demonstrate that even if
Man can't hurt me, he can certainly make a nuisance of himself.

But the thing is: Man isn't permitted to be a nuisance to us without their nefarious
intentions first clearing with God because even the Devil himself can't get to us
without first clearing with God. (e.g. Job 1:6-2:7, John 19:11, Luke 22:31) So it's
possible that some us are going to be very surprised to discover the quantity of ill
fortune that would've befallen us had not God blocked it.
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[Olde Tymer]

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● Heb 13:7 . . Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider
the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

The "leaders" of that particular verse refer to the ones who captained Moses' people
over the centuries; e.g. Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samuel, David. Elijah, Ezra, and
Nehemiah; and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah; et al.

There was once an advertisement for a beer on television that said, in so many
words: "You only go around once in life. So grab all the gusto you can get." Well;
Christ's believing followers should not be thinking like that. They don't go around
once; the real gusto is yet to come.
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