Hold Fast

Sometimes I am still so amazed at writing's that took place so long ago, and how insightful they really are for today. Take this one for example, it's like Horatius Bonar wrote it yesterday concerning what is going on in our church's across America right now.

Beware of changeableness; be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines: it is a bad sign of a man when he is frequently shifting his ground and adopting new opinions. 'It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace' (Hebrews 13:9); and it is good to hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end (Hebrews 3:14). The 'righteousness of God' was that which you began with, and you found it an ample covering and a sufficient resting-place. God's reckoning your sin to Christ, and His righteousness to you was joy and peace, when you found the burden of your grief too great for you to bear. Never let go your hold of this truth. Continue to rejoice in this blessed exchange. Let the righteousness of the Righteous One be your daily covering.

When a man gets wearied of what is old, and is always catching hold of what is new, it looks as if he had been beguiled from the simplicity that is in Christ, and had lost his relish for the things of Christ; nay, almost as if he had never been 'rooted and grounded in love.' Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul. 'Some new thing' is the craving not of the men of Athens only, but of many in the Church of God. They are restless; and are carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. Old truths get tame and stale (Ephesians 4:14; Hebrews 13:9; 1 John 4:1). Take care of 'itching ears' (2 Timothy 4:3), and of 'heaping to yourselves teachers' (2 Timothy 4:3).

Excerpt taken from "Follow the Lamb" by Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)