”See to it…See that…See to it…

As we have seen, pursuing holiness (14) involves availing ourselves of all the resources God provides (15a). We cannot become holy apart from God’s grace. But these repeated exhortations in Hebrews 12 point to our personal responsibility to take action, as we draw upon God’s power – a power, by the way, we may not always feel, but it is none the less really there for us. We can count on it; even more, we can count on Him.

Here is a very important quote from Don Carson:

“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”