Read Hebrews 2.
1.What does this text tell you about the character of God?
2. What does it say about God’s nature?
3. Where do you see God’s love at work in the midst of these verses?
4. What section or verses in the text speak most personally to you?
The text begins with the first of five “warning” passages in Hebrews. Reflect on Hebrews 2:1 and answer the following questions:
5. What is the warning, and what is the consequence noted in the text?
6. To whom or under what circumstances do you “pay the most careful attention”?
7. Describe a season in your life when you paid the most careful attention to Jesus.
8. What was the outcome of that season?
9. Describe a relationship in your life that has drifted. Note what conditions precipitated drift, note where drift brought separation. Note if there was any reconnection, re-centering once drift was recognized.
10. Describe a time when you drifted in your relationship with God?
11. How did God’s presence draw you back to His heart?
12. How do you sense Jesus giving you strength to stay anchored to His Presence?
Read and reflect on the quote from Dan Wilt.
“That church’s experience 2,000 years ago intersects our lives in this way: drifting is the besetting sin of our day. And as the metaphor suggests, it is not so much intentional as from unconcern. Christians neglect their anchor—Christ—and begin to quietly drift away. There is no friction, no dramatic sense of departure. But when the winds of trouble come, the things of Christ are left far behind, even out of sight.”
13. How do this truth resonate with you today?
14. How does it call you forth?
Read and reflect on verses 2-9, 14-18 and answer the following questions:
15. How can salvation be ignored?
16. Why was Jesus becoming fully human necessary?
17. How does His abject solidarity with humanity encourage you?
18. What role does suffering play in your own resurrection?
Read and reflect on the middle verse, 10-13 and answer the following questions:
19. How do you see yourself as a son or daughter of the King?
20. How do you live today in the truth of your belovedness?
21. What role do we now, as His Church, have in this neighborhood, and into the nations?
22. Where do you sense God inviting you to believe and receive His position as child of the King, and ambassador of the King?
Spend time praying through His truth, praying for His will and His way to be accomplished in and through you. Give Him praise for His faithfulness.
