Hold Fast

When you are in a storm of life...HOLD FAST.

Hold fast because your life may depend on it. If you give up or let go because of your trial you may lose what's most important to you.

Hold fast because circumstances will change. Even when it seems you can hold on no longer, keeping holding on, things will be different eventually and you will be glad you held fast.

Hold fast because help is coming. Who knows, maybe God will give you a second wind and your rescue could be right around the corner.

Hold fast because even if it doesn't work out you will never know what might have been if you give up. It would be better to die holding fast than to die because you gave up.

I bet by the end of his incredible trial Job was glad he didn't listen to the naysayers and instead held fast. Job 2:9 "Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”"

1 Thessalonians 5:21 "Test all things; hold fast what is good."

Hebrews 10:23 "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful."

Revelation 2:25 "But hold fast what you have till I come."

 Joshua 23:8 "But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now."
 

When We Face Challenges Too Big For Us

Life challenges are often far too big for us to handle alone. Self-sufficiency only lasts so long; eventually it crumbles under the weight of life's demands. Ever heard the saying, "God will never give you anything you can't handle?" Well, it's not in the Bible and it's not true. God often allows us to experience things we can't handle. This forces us to lean on Him and others. Here is a great quote from Spurgeon in this subject:

"There are many passages of Scripture which you will never understand until some trying experience shall interpret them to you. The other evening I was riding home after a heavy day's work; I was wearied and depressed; and swiftly and suddenly as a lightning flash, this text laid hold of me: "My grace is sufficient for you!" When I got home, I looked it up in the original, and finally it dawned upon me what the text was saying, MY grace is sufficient for THEE. "Why," I said to myself, "I should think it is!" and I burst out laughing. It seemed to make unbelief so absurd. It was though some little fish, being very thirsty, was troubled about drinking the river dry; and Father River said; "Drink away, little fish, my stream is sufficient for you!" Or as if a little mouse in the granaries of Egypt after seven years of plenty, feared lest it should die of famine, and Joseph said, "Cheer up, little mouse, my granaries are sufficient for you!" Again I imagined a man on the mountain saying to himself, "I fear I shall exhaust all the oxygen in the atmosphere." But the earth cries, "Breathe away, O man, and fill your lungs; my atmosphere is sufficient for you!" C.H. Spurgeon