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The writer is challenging them in their faith. They had come to a decision point; a Y in the road, you might say. Should they choose the path that goes back to where they came? They were Jews who had received Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Savior, but they were being pressured and even persecuted by other Jews living in Jerusalem to fall away from their faith in Christ and to go back to the laws of Moses, back to the ways of the Old Testament.
The writer to these Hebrews heard that they were struggling, so he writes to remind them of all they have in Jesus. “Why would you neglect so great a salvation?” he challenged.
Sometimes Christians struggle in their faith as well. Some have worldly friends that try to influence them to go back to their old ways. “Don’t you remember the ‘good ol’ days’ in the world when you use to party and embarrass yourself and feel yucky in the morning?”
It might remind us of when Israel spent 40 years in the desert murmuring and complaining against God and wishing for the good ol’ days when they were slaves in Egypt. Something is wrong with the perspective. It’s blindness that looks back and calls them the ‘good ol’ days’ when in fact God’s plan for you is to give you a future and a hope.
They needed to be strengthened in faith and so the writer challenges them, “You have need of endurance. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward,” he wrote in Chapter 10.
They were at a decision point, they had come to a Y in the road. Those who struggle in their faith need to choose the path of greatest blessing, for there is great reward for those who seek God, who pursue relationship with Him, who press into their faith and do not shrink back.
In Chapter 11 he reminded them of the heroes of faith from the Old Testament who endured many trials and difficulties and suffered much, but they were looking to the reward. They had a hope fixed before them; they had made their mind, for them it was settled, the question was answered.
Then, in the earlier verses of Chapter 12 he challenged them to lay aside every encumbrance and run with endurance the race that was set before them. In other words, choose the way of faith. You believe that there is a God? Wonderful, you do well, but even the demons believe that. Those who come to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. That’s the path you must choose.
In the verses we’re studying today, he challenges them to make straight paths for their feet. In other words, if you choose to go back, if you choose the old ways, the old life, you are choosing a path of great difficulty.
It reminds me of the challenge that Joshua brought to Israel, “Choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the people in whose land you are now living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
It’s also like when Elisha called the people together on Mount Carmel and challenged them, saying, “How long will you waiver between two opinions? If Baal is God then serve him, but if Jehovah is God, then serve Him.”
When you run the race that is set before you, you are making your paths straight, you are choosing the path that brings healing. He then gets very straightforward and practical as he shows them what it means to live on the path of healing.

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