Fix Up Look Sharp (Hebrews - Day 6)

There are two key phrases in yesterday's passage that set the tone for chapter 3 and 4 of Hebrews:
FIX YOUR THOUGHTS
and
HOLD FIRM

As I wondered around the house I couldn't help but start singing Dizzee Rascal's song, 'Fix Up Look Sharp' (WARNING: Contains offensive language). It's got a great big beat, but more importantly it represents Grime’s anti-bling clarion call: a call to authenticity. Be who you really are...
...well that's my rushed attempt to sense its meaning!

Now it may seem strange to reference Grime here - and certainly there are lots of values I would disapprove of - but the song (it seems to me) is about saying to the world - this is me - this is who I am - I'm facing you chin up. Regardless of the haters!

And when we say to one another - Fix Your Thoughts on Jesus - Hold Firm in the face of temptation, trials and tests - it's much the same.

Our real deep down attitudes and behaviours are merely the outworking of our thoughts - what are you thinking about today: worries, stress, work, money, your appearance? If you think and fix your thoughts on Jesus then the other stuff is put into perspective. Maybe the issues don't vanish - they rarely do - but instead of seeing the problem...we are reminded to see Jesus over the problems - remember...Hebrews' Christology places all things under Jesus.

3 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. ² He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. ³ Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. ⁵ “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. ⁶ But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Hebrews 3:1-6

This blog is part of our cells Hebrews Walkthrough season - inspired by the lectionary's Hebrew readings on Sunday mornings in these last few weeks before Advent, we have committed to reading through the whole book of Hebrews following a reading plan I've devised.