Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

Zbc Ibolicst of mi 111
XXI.
IF WE HOLD FAST OUR BOLDNESS FIRM TO THE END.
III.— 6. Whosehouse we are, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying
of our hope firm unto the end.
Among the Hebrew.s there were not a few who had gone
back and were in danger of falling away.
They had given way
to .sloth, and liad lost the joy and confidence of their first faith.
The writer is about (iii. y-'w. 13.) to sound a note of solemn
warning, to call them to beware of that evil heart of unbelief,
which departs from the living God. As the transition he
writes, making the words as it were the text for what follows,
Whose house we are, if we hold fast our boldness, and the
g-lorying of our hope firm to the end.
Holding fast firm to the end.
Steadfastness, perseverance,
this is indeed the great need of the Christian life. There is no
question that exercises the earnest minister of the gospel in our
days, as in early times, more deeply than what may be the reason
that so many converts grow cold and fall away, and what can be
done that we may have Christians who can stand and conquer.
How often does it not happen, both after times of revival and
special effort, and also in the ordinary work of the Church, that
those who for a time ran well, got so entangled in the business
or the pleasure of life, the literature, or the politics, or the friendships
of the world, that all the life and the power of their
profession is lost. They lack steadfastness ; they miss the
crowning grace of perseverance.