Hebrews 6:1 - Faith Toward God

Lay a foundation

Leave the elementary

Mature, build, grow up

-Hebrews 5:11-6:2

Faith toward God, according to Hebrews 6:1, is elementary. Elementary means babies can get it. If it seems hard, I'm making it hard. I gained courage from this today.

I send courtesy and humility toward other people.
Titus 3:2 …to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
1 Peter 5:5 …clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

God sends mercy and patience toward us.
Hebrews 8:12 …For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
2 Peter 3:9 …The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

We send confidence, faith and repentance toward God.
1 John 5:14 …this is the confidence we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us…
Philemon 1:5 …because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.
Acts 20:21 …testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says this about faith:




It is important to notice that Heb_11:1 is no exception to the rule that "faith" normally means "reliance," "trust." There "Faith is the substance...of things not seen." This is sometimes interpreted as if faith, in the writer's view, were, so to speak, a faculty of second sight, a mysterious intuition into the spiritual world. But the chapter amply shows that the faith illustrated, e.g. by Abraham, Moses, Rahab, was simply reliance upon a God known to be trustworthy. Such reliance enabled the believer to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.Yesterday God asked me a question. (No audible voice, just a gut question.) "How would you be acting right now if you knew every worry on your mind was completely taken care of? What would you be doing? Do that now." So I did. I cleaned the house and enjoyed myself instead of allowing myself to be paralyzed into inaction by worry and what-ifs. I just now realized - that's faith!

Thanks, God!