What in the world is a holdfast and why do I need it?

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Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering…”

Seahorses are amazing animals. Although they have skin rather than scales, they are true fish. Their two eyes move independent of each other, and their curved, horse-like heads earned them the name “seahorse.” One interesting fact about them is that they usually mate for life, and it is the males that carry and give birth to the young. That’s enough to make any woman like them, but it isn’t the only thing or even the main thing that makes them such delightfully interesting creatures to me.

Although they are fish, seahorses aren’t very good swimmers. Because of that, they tend to spend their entire lives in a very small area of coral or sea grass. There’s safety there because they could easily be swept away by currents or caught up in turbulent seas during a storm. In either of those cases, they could easily die of exhaustion.

However, God equipped them with a curved, prehensile (able to grip) tail. And that’s where they cross the line from interesting to amazing. They use that tail to grip a piece of coral or a blade of sea grass, and that prevents them from being carried away by contrary currents or destroyed by a storm-tossed sea.

That coral or grass, that shelter, that anchor is called a holdfast, and it is the most important thing in the seahorse’s world. It’s what he clings to whether at rest or in a storm. It’s his stability, his “safe place” and the place to which he returns again and again. Most seahorses use the same holdfast for their entire lives.

That anchor isn’t called a holdfast because of the strength of the seahorse but because of the strength of the coral or seagrass to which he clings. Apart from it, the seahorse is completely vulnerable. In fact, the destruction of their habitat and their holdfast would result in their own destruction as well.

It’s what I immediately thought of when I read Hebrews 10:23 where we are admonished to “hold fast our profession without wavering.” Like the seahorse, we aren’t very adept at navigating the storm-tossed seas or even the changing currents that are part of every life.

We don’t have any strength in ourselves, but God has designed and equipped us to find that strength in making Him our “holdfast” and in clinging to Him when the storms come. Christ can be our “holdfast,” giving us just enough strength to cling to Him as we ride out the storms and waves. The end of our text verse tells us we can do it because “he is faithful that promised…” (Heb 10:23)

I don’t know what you’re facing today or what might come into your life tomorrow. I don’t know what tomorrow might bring to me either. But I do know that, whatever it is, it doesn’t have to overwhelm us and destroy our faith, our testimony, or our lives. And the choice about whether to “hold fast our profession…” when the storm comes is ours alone.

Challenge for Today: What might happen if we, just for today, refused to give up and instead chose to “hold fast our profession?”