Morning Prayer: Encourage Each Other
From Morning Prayer: “Encourage each other daily while it is still today." (Hebrews 3:13) How are we to understand this exhortation? The Original Context Who Said This? “Encourage each other daily while it is still today” comes from Hebrews 3:13 , a letter written to a community of early Jewish‑Christian believers sometime between 60–90 AD. The author is unknown — traditionally attributed to Paul, but modern scholarship sees it as the work of an early Christian teacher steeped in Jewish Scripture, Greek rhetoric, and pastoral concern. Who were the recipients? A community under pressure: Some were discouraged. Some were drifting away from the faith. Some were facing persecution or social exclusion. Some were simply tired — spiritually, emotionally, communally. Why this exhortation? The writer is warning them about hardness of heart — not in the sense of being “mean,” but in the biblical sense of becoming numb, cynical, spiritually sluggish, or disconnected from one another....