“…Lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God” (Hebrews 3:12).

Does that warning fit me? I can’t imagine developing that kind of heart. Neither can I imagine abandoning God.

Nevertheless, the warning is precisely for me. And so is this next one.

“…Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13).

I disregard these warnings at my own peril. He is in greatest danger who thinks he is in no danger.

I’m glad both of these warnings have preventive instructions preceding them.

“Take heed, brethren” (12).

“But exhort one another daily, while it is called To Day” (13).

I have received much spiritual truth — from parents, from friends, from teachers, from preachers, from writers, from the Bible itself.

I have received a rich spiritual heritage. And I am leaving a (rich?) spiritual heritage.

The parenthetical question means I’m wondering whether I’ve let anything slip. (Maybe I should say what instead of whether!)

The heritage I’m leaving — does it represent slippage? Or have I enriched it further?

“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip” (Hebrews 2:1).

God help me to hang on to those things . . . and to add to them.