Hebrews 6:9

Hebrews 6:9 says, But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.  The writer states that they, which would be those believers with him and he himself, were sure of better things of the Hebrew Christians than the falling away from their faith.  No matter where we live today, our fellow followers of Christ should expect us to live by faith in Christ.  Verse ten adds, For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.  Though we do not work for salvation, once we accept salvation through Christ, we are to work that God might be glorified.  God will not forget the work that we do for Him.  Since each believer is given at least one talent, or gift of the Holy Spirit, then each believer must be faithful in utilizing that talent or those talents that have been given to them.  We cannot do anything of our own ability, so it is important that we rely on the Holy Spirit to reveal and develop our talents.  Verse eleven continues, And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:  We are called on to give our full diligence to God.  We cannot allow God to be a sideline in our lives.  We need to be diligent in our work for God's kingdom.  When we are, then we can have full assurance of hope until the end.  We do this labor for God not for reward but out of love for Him.  Verse twelve states, That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.  God does not expect us to be lazy in our work for Him.  We are to work faithfully and patiently to fulfill the will of God.  Though we inherit the promise of God through faith in Christ, our faith is evident by our works.  Just as God created mankind for a purpose, He redeems them for a purpose as well.  Verse thirteen adds, For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,  God's promise to Abraham was assured because God based it on His own righteousness and not the righteousness of Abraham.  The reason that we can have salvation and hope is because of the righteousness of God, through which He gives us salvation if we will only accept it by faith in Christ.  Verse fourteen continues, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.  Abraham was blessed by his faith in God.  He did become the father of a great nation because of God working through Him.  Verse fifteen concludes, And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.  We might argue that Abraham did not patiently endure, but even so he had to wait until God fulfilled His promise.  We as followers of Christ must patiently endure until the fulfillment of the promise of the return of Christ.  We can do nothing to hurry it up.  Our calling is to faithfully rest in God's promise as we continue to do what He has called us to do.