Hebrews 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. The man who fails to fulfil his mission to others, fails to find the end and meaning of his own life; cease to do good and you will soon cease to be good, and will make shipwreck of your personal hope. The Jews were God's witnesses of this. Instead of making all nations love them and seek to walk in the light of their life as a people, they managed to make all nations hate and persecute them — with a hatred, moreover, that deepened with the ages, and at length wrought their utter ruin. You may say that this was the inevitable result of the position of a godly people in the midst of a heathen world. At first it might be so, but not permanently. Christianity has won its way, first to toleration, then to honour — Judaism never did; and yet the peoples around were far from indisposed to receive its impressions. Joseph won his way at once at Memphis, Daniel at Babylon. And Joseph and Daniel had nothing but what Judaism had. They were Jews to the heart's core, and the history of their missionary work stands in everlasting record to shame their countrymen, and to justify the ways of God, when "the wind bound up the self-centred and exclusive people in her wings," and bore them into a far captivity, where, unless they were prepared to renounce their nationality, they must bear witness for God, whether they would or no. (J. Baldwin Brown.) Parallel Verses KJV: But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.WEB: But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. |
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