For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

Consider that verse! God is not unjust to forget our service to Him. He is faithful. The verse goes on to tell two things God faithfully remembers about His servants:

1. He remembers our work—each individual act.
2. He also takes note of the love within us that prompted the deed.

No one on earth can consistently do those special things. We forget, but God remembers. We see the action; God sees the motive.

This qualifies Him as the best record-keeper and judge.

He alone is perfectly and incessantly just.

Even the best of servants get weary.

The Lord’s desire is to encourage us to be diligent and to trust Him in spite of the demands.

That is why this same writer, before the ink is dry on verse 10, adds:

And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (Hebrews 6:11–12)

My fellow servant, you’re in good hands with the Almighty!

—Chuck