This particular verse from Hebrews 4 spoke to me today: “Let us cling to Him and never stop trusting Him.”
I looked up the word cling and these are some synonyms I found: adhere, cleave, unite, bind.
To cling is to hold something firmly as if by adhesion.
If you ever watched the process of adhesion, you’d understand that once something is bound to another, it cannot easily be separated. Sure, you can unstick tape from a box, but only by force. Unless you stuck a piece of tape that is pretty weak to the box (and I know some brands I wouldn’t recommend), most tape will not easily fall off the object. It is there to stay.
This is how we are to cling to Jesus. We are to cling to him and not allow outside forces to separate us. These outside forces can be the worries of life, distractions, our sin, fear, and unbelief that weakens our faith and our trust in Jesus.
To continue to cling to Jesus, we need adhesive. What is the adhesive in our lives? It’s the Holy Spirit! We must continue to receive the power of the Holy Spirit, to help us continue to follow Jesus, to turn to Him in our pain, and to walk with Him and not with the world.
Sure, we will stumble. Sometimes, a part of the tape loosens and curls up. But if we continue to abide with Christ, we won’t fall away. The Holy Spirit will make us sticky and we will cling ourselves once more to Jesus.
❤️Anastasia Daniel