“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:23–25). The writer to the Hebrews seeks to make a clear point for us to hold fast to our confession of our hope without wavering. This hope we have is found in nothing outside of the finished work of Jesus, the Messiah of God’s people, and for that matter, the whole world (John 3:16; John 14:6). The Messiah is the title of the deliverer promised to Israel in the Old Testament, then referred to in the New Testament as The Christ. In this context, the writer is reminding the Hebrew believers of what they naturally would have understood this reference to be. The hope is the promise to Abram (Genesis 12; 15; 18; 22), now fulfilled in Jesus Christ as the risen and vindicated Savior and now King of all the earth. Because this hope is in the immutable God, we are to take our stand and hold our ground unwaveringly with full confidence in the trustworthiness of all of God’s promises. No matter what storm may come, we are to be unmovable and willing to live our lives for God in confidence, joy, and love as a shining light to the world in the storms of suffering as we shine as a beacon of hope above the waves. The writer is concerned about the fidelity of their readers faith because of the natural pressure to deny or walk away from our faith in God when things are hard. Let nothing, I mean nothing, move you away from the promises of God. He is able to keep you. God has got you in His arms! Paul wrote from prison, “…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ…” (Philippians 1:6). Come Lord Jesus!
Trust God’s Promises
