Are You Holding?

This is a M.O.W. Post.   "Middle Of the Week" Post. Since I post on Thursday, this is MY middle of the week. I just had more to say!!


Read Hebrews 3:6

Forgive me! I did not finish my thoughts on Thursday because of kids and  A/C technicians taking my attention.

Verse six says, "And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast." This verse is one that explains my confidence in seeing Heaven and living with Jesus Christ.  Believers are Christ's house. I am a believer--are you?  Jesus is faithful over the house God gave him. I know that because Jesus is the "exact representation of his {God} being" (Hebrews 1:3). Just scanning my concordance, I found eight verses referring to God's faithfulness, so I know Jesus is faithful too.

If I hold on to my courage,  don't shrink back (Heb 10:39), stand firm (1 Cor 15:58), confess Jesus as Christ (Romans10:9), keep in step with the Spirit (Galatians 5:25), I can boast about what I hope for--heaven. I don't do it perfectly, but I look perfect (righteous) because of the blood of Christ. (Hebrews explains this concept in later chapters.)

I know someone who thinks I think I am saved no mater what I do. That is not my belief. This person misunderstands my confidence.  The bible says "if we hold onto our courage and hope...".  I am holding...are you? John 15:4 says, "Remain in me, and I will remain in you." I remain in him--do you? If I remain in him, my life should show it. Continuing in John, if I remain in him, my life will bear much fruit--does it?

 I also believe the opposite John talks about. If I do not remain in him, I have no part in him and he will reject me like the goats (Matt 25:31-46) and say he 'never knew me' (Matt 7:23).  I am not rejecting him. I am not running from him--are you?

I'm still holding--are you? Right now, in my life, nothing has happened to destroy my hope or courage or confidence. I continue to remain in Christ.  I can "approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that [I] may receive mercy and find grace to help [me] in [my] distress (Heb 4:6).  I know I sin, but my sins DO NOT keep me from Jesus. If I thought that, I would be saying Christ's sacrifice did nothing for me and all his promises are lies. I choose to believe Jesus is faithful, therefore "I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any power, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate [ME] from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord"!!!!!

That is the confidence I am holding---are you?