"...we are confident of better things in your case..."

Continuing to read Hebrews 6:7-12
"Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are confident of better things in your case - things that accompany salvation."

The warnings are serious, the acceptance of responsibility for my spiritual life is serious, the consequences for neglect are serious BUT "even though we speak like this" we need to realize that there is a very powerful positive force at work in our life. "We are confident of better things." There is reason to be confident concerning our own lives and the lives of those we love who are in Jesus that "better things" than thorns and thistles will come up out of the good soil on which the seed of God's word has fallen. This is the point of balance that God wants us to live our lives on. Living in tension with the warnings and the promises. Listening equally to the curses and the blessings. Do not be discouraged by the presence of thorns and thistles, take responsibility for them, own up to them, repent of them and be confident that better things are in store for those who have given their lives to Jesus. There are things "that accompany salvation" that are working themselves out in my life. I can be confident of this as I let God speak to me about my actions, attitudes, thoughts and desires.

Not everyone, of course is in the same "case" in this world, but "we are confident of better things in YOUR CASE."