If we hold fast

Hebrews{3:1} Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus{3:2} Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.{3:3} For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. {3:4} For every house is builded by some man but he that built all things is God.{3:5} And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to bespoken after; {3:6} But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
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He who hath builded the house hath more honor than the house.
He that built all things is God.
Christ, son over his own house.
Whose house are WE.
IF we hold fast.
Firm unto the end.
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Jesus is the builder of all things-
John {1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.{1:2} The same was in the beginning with God. {1:3} All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Jesus has more honor than we do as is only right. Jesus is the builder we are the house he built IF we hold fast the confidence (have faith) and the rejoicing of the hope (faith) unto the end.
We all want to be molded and shaped by our Savior don't we? Isn't that why we are seeking Him in us, seeking to find Him, seeking to know Him and have Him know us? Who knows a house more intimately than its builder? No one. The house is in existence because of the builder, without the builder there is no house. We are houses built by Jesus if we believe and have faith and not only have it but have it until the end.
It's important to consider the end. It's important to consider the life long process not just the immediate result. Too often people will do things impulsively without thinking long term. We have to think past the beginning and to the end. Our faith will be tested and tried severely.
1 Peter {1:5} Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.{1:6} Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations{1:7} That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise andhonour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ
Our faith may cause heaviness through manifold temptations, this is the trying of our faith. Do we believe in God, or don't we truly believe beyond superficial claim? We have to know that our faith will be tried as gold is tried in fire and that's a process that isn't easy at all. To claim to be Christ's and to faint as soon as we are tried isn't to be Christ's at all. We need to hold fast through the trying process and I know, easier said than done.
Lives are falling apart all around us with the financial crisis taking place, bad situations are only getting worse and sometimes it seems that we are being kicked when we are down, and maybe we are, but being a Christian doesn't mean having an easy life at all. Being a Christian means holding fast to the faith we need in our Savior during the worst of times knowing that just because we might be seemingly living in hell on earth doesn't mean there isn't hope, that Christ has forsaken us, God has left us, that we are cursed in some way. Being a Christian means holding fast even in the very worst of times when all seems lost and hopeless we have to 'hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.'
We are Christ's.
May God help us as we believe and have faith seeking to increase in faith, in hope always so that we may holdfast unto the end.
In the name of Jesus by His grace and mercy now and forever.
Amen.