Ministering to the Saints - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:10-12

Ministering to the Saints
Some of us may feel inclined to exclaim, "How extraordinary! I should have thought that great acts of faith, great exploits of devotion to God would have revealed reality better than that." In so saying or thinking we would be wrong. Under stress of emotion or sudden enthusiasm great acts are sometimes accomplished which are no true index to the heart. It is in these little things that we reveal our true selves far more truly. Ministering to the saints, who are the people of God, these believers showed their love toward God Himself.

It is one thing to minister to a saint because I happen to like him or her, and quite another to minister to a saint just as a saint; and it is this latter which is spoken about here. The former is a thing which might be done by an unconverted person; the latter is only possible to one who possesses the divine nature. Now this is just the point here. The things that accompany salvation (v. 9), are the things which manifest the divine nature, things which therefore prove the reality of faith in a way that the possession of miraculous powers or the outward privileges of Christianity never can.

Being thus assured of the salvation of the mass of those to whom he wrote, there is but one word of exhortation at this point. The writer urges them to go on doing as they had done, to continue diligently in this good way to the end, in the full assurance that their hope was not misplaced.

F. B. Hole