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Why Hold On When Life Gets Hard? – Hebrews 4:14
Sep 16, 2025 274
“Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.” (ESV)
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Life is tough. For the first readers of Hebrews, following Jesus meant pressure, persecution, and the temptation to give up. The writer urges them, and us, to “hold fast our confession.”
What does that mean? Simply, to keep trusting Jesus. To keep believing the gospel. To cling to him as Lord and Saviour even when everything else feels like it’s falling apart.
And here’s why we can: “we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens.” The imagery is powerful. Israel’s high priests entered the earthly temple once a year, stepping through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. But Jesus has gone further. After completing his earthly work – his perfect life, his sacrificial death, and his triumphant resurrection – he ascended, passing through the heavens, and is now permanently seated at the right hand of the Father in the physical presence of God.
That changes everything. Our faith is not anchored in blind hope and wishful thinking. It’s anchored in a living Saviour who has gone before us, who is already in God’s presence, and who promises to bring us with him.
So why hold on when life gets hard? Because Jesus is already holding you. He has secured your access to the Father. He has opened the way into God’s presence. And nothing – not sin, not shame, not suffering – can close the way he has opened.
Hold fast to your confession. Keep clinging to Christ. Your hope is safe in him.
Reflection:
What would it look like for you to “hold fast your confession” this week?
