Today, in our reading from the letter to the Hebrews, the author makes an appeal to Christians, that they should be firm in their faith, otherwise they would incur a fate similar to the Israelites. Through their unbelief and their doubts, the Israelites were delayed in their entrance to the promised land, with many of them condemned to die in the wilderness in the midst of their wanderings. The Israelites never achieved the place of rest to which God had invited them due to their infidelity. In this same way, the Christians who harden their hearts to the faith will not know the joy and rest of eternal life, symbolized by the promised land in the life of the Israelites.
Staying true to the faith sometimes means just continuing on our journey and putting one foot in front of the other. I think of my life as lay missionary and as a priest. Much of it is doing mundane everyday activities. Just writing homilies, reflections, and prayers of the faithful, you can imagine that I am constantly writing and revising, almost everyday. I am reading books all the time to prepare for my homilies. A lot of it is just being faithful to a routine and devoting time to it, to practicing and trying to improve. Our life of faith is similar, in devoting time and working diligently toward it. In the end, it is not really complicated.
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