Friday, March 27
Read Hebrews 6:4-8
The “impossibleness” of restoration—This one little word can cause a whole heap of struggles in the lives of believers. It is one thing to admit it is possible to fall away. It is another thing entirely to say that there is a point where it is impossible to return. Read this passage again. . . The “impossibleness” does not speak to God’s inability to bring someone back. . . It speaks to the impossibility of our work bringing them back. While God may sometimes use us, conviction is not necessarily the work of the church body—especially with someone who already knows what we are going to say. The author of the letter is begging and urging his disciples not to fall away, because he knows he will no longer be able to be a voice in their life and growth in Christ. His description of the one who has fallen away is most definitely a Christian. They have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been partakers of the Holy Spirit. Now that they have fallen away, all that can be done is pray that God will somehow get through to them. It is impossible for us to get through and restore them. All of this is not to say that we give up. Instead, let’s move on to maturity and not continue to be babes in Christ.