Michael Harrison's e-devotion

We could call this e-devotion several different things.  What I will simply do is share that these are the extra verses that I shared during Sunday’s message.  Each illustrates a point in how Jesus is greater than everything. If we are honest, there have been times where we have doubted, struggled, got down, wondered why and even thought about giving up.  Yet we didn’t.  Somehow God intervened. That is why we need to take the confession of our faith serious.  Hold tight, as we talked about in yesterday’s devotion.   Let me share some of these verses and give a little thought with each… Hebrews 4:14  NASB Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let’s hold firmly to our confession. That is the first I want to make us think through.  The greatest one is greater than all the others because He was the first one and will be the last.  He holds it all together.  That is, He holds me...

Sunday I enjoyed sharing with our church a message from our theme of HE>i from the book of Hebrews.  We talked about how Jesus is greater than everything.  Specifically He is greater than the angels, greater than Moses, greater than Joshua and greater than Aaron. Answer this… what have you made great than Jesus in your life?  That is a tough and telling question.  Answer that and figure out why you feel alone at some points in your life.   The book of Hebrews has some incredible truth from the first to the last chapter with a huge portion being in chapters 11 and 12.  But the crux of the book are these two verses: Hebrews 10:23-24  NLT Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; 24 and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds,  How do we make Jesus greater?  We become less.  We make more of Him, believe Him, share Him with others and spend time with ...