Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Hold Fast

Recently some Sunday school children in Morvant, Trinidad were asked what it meant to hold fast. There were several simple but legitimate answers. Here are just two of them:

“Don’t let go!”

“Hang on tight!”

These definitions brought to mind several things from the Word of God that we are told to hang on tight to and not let go:

“Hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

“Hold fast the form of sound words” (2 Timothy 1:13)

“Hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end” (Hebrews 3:6).

“Hold fast our profession” (Hebrews 4:14).

“Hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering” (Hebrews 10:23).

It takes real energy of faith and dependence on the Lord to hold fast and be faithful to Him and His Word. But He gives us all the power and spiritual fortitude we need and encourages us to not let go until He comes. “But that which ye have already hold fast till I come” (Revelation 2:25).