Hold Fast

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” (Romans 12:9)

Hold fast – “To remain firmly committed or steadfast to a belief, principle, or position.

To persist in the face of difficulty or adversity.

To hold on tightly to something, either physically or metaphorically.”

It’s hard to “hold fast”.  We live in a world of distractions, often times choosing to live in that world of distraction.  

Other times the distractions just seem to find us and those distractions make life difficult.   Either way, we need to make the critical decision to hold fast to what is good and what is Godly.  At all times.  In all situations.  

Daniel held fast (Daniel 6).

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego held fast (Daniel 3).

Job held fast (Job 1-42).

Paul and Silas held fast (Acts 16:16-40). 

Their stories are real and so is yours.  In the middle of your story hearing the stories from the Bible seem so far away.  But their story was real, just almost unimaginable.  They never imagined their story would unfold like it did.  They held fast in some extreme circumstances and so can you.  

You never imagined your story unfolding like it may have either, but here you are in the middle of it.  

You may not be thrown in a den of lions or in a fiery furnace, but here’s the great equalizer between your story and those unimaginable stories in the Bible where God served as a rescuer.  

The same God who delivered them will deliver you.  Your job is to do like they did.  Hold fast.  Remove distractions from your life that you have control over.  Those distractions that you do cannot control ‘hold fast to what is good’.  

Find peace and rest in the same God who rescued Daniel, Job and countless others throughout history.  He rescued them, and He will rescue you.  

Hold fast.  Others did.  So can you.