The
idea portrayed in the verse is that of a mooring line that was not secured, as
it should be and through one’s casual neglect, the boat was let slip away from
the dock. The Hebrews’ writer mentions the things “heard” were those things taught
by our Lord and His apostles (Heb. 2:3). So, the admonition is given: “we ought to
give the more earnest heed” (v. 1) to those things spoken and now
recorded for us in the Bible. This is similar language to that used in Acts
2:42 when the early church “continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine…”
The result of which caused them to be “together, having all things common” (Acts
2:44). Together, we can care for that mooring line and never let slip or drift
away in our faithfulness unto God. “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation…?”
(Heb. 2:3).
~ Wayne Rodgers
