Hebrews 12:12 |Responding to difficulty

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Hebrews 12:12 ESV

12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

What do you do after you have been disciplined or gone tho

illustration - how my dad told me to pick up my head after allowing goal.

Hebrews 12:13 ESV

13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

lame - doesn’t mean it can’t come back. IT can still be healed.

Hebrews 12:14 ESV

14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Stive - work hard

peace with everyone - even people who disagree with you on politics.

holiness without which - Holiness is how we see God.

Hebrews 12:15 ESV

15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

fails to obtain - they don’t lose it, so what does it mean?

root of bitterness - Duet 29:18

Hebrews 12:16 ESV

16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Hebrews 12:17 ESV

17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

If you walk away, by the time you realize it and want it back you