The Jewish Christians to whom the Epistle to the Hebrews is addressed were demoralized and discouraged. Christianity had proven difficult. It was radical. It set aside centuries of tradition. It emphasized a new but troubling kind of spiritual freedom.
Many converts were ready to turn back and leave the uneasy, uncharted waters of faith for the comfortable, familiar life of works and moral effort.
After reminding the immature believers of the superiority of Jesus, the writer of Hebrews demonstrates for them the superiority of the faith. Faith means we cannot see the outcome, and we are not sure what lies ahead. But we are convinced of the reality of God. In other words, "We're not sure what the future holds, but we know Who holds the future." Faith means clinging to the hope that God will eventually triumph.
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