August 14 Hold on Until the End<\/p>\n
“We are made partaker of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end” (Heb. 3:14).<\/p>\n
It is the last step that wins; and there is no place in the pilgrim’s progress where so many dangers lurk as the region that lies hard by the portals of the Celestial City. It was there that Doubting Castle stood. It was there that the enchanted ground lured the tired traveler to fatal slumber. It is when Heaven’s heights are full in view that hell’s gate is most persistent and full of deadly peril. “Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” “So run, that ye may obtain.”<\/p>\n
In the bitter waves of woe
\nBeaten and tossed about
\nBy the sullen winds that blow
\nFrom the desolate shores of doubt,
\nWhere the anchors that faith has cast
\nAre dragging in the gale,
\nI am quietly holding fast
\nTo the things that cannot fail.<\/p>\n
And fierce though the fiends may fight,
\nAnd long though the angels hide,
\nI know that truth and right
\nHave the universe on their side;
\nAnd that somewhere beyond the stars
\nIs a love that is better than fate.
\nWhen the night unlocks her bars
\nI shall see Him–and I will wait.
\n–Washington Gladden<\/p>\n
The problem of getting great things from God is being able to hold on for the last half hour. –Selected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
August 14 Hold on Until the End<\/p>\n
“We are made partaker of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end” (Heb. 3:14).<\/p>\n
It is the last step that wins; and there is no place in the pilgrim’s progress where so many dangers lurk as the region that lies hard by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-44065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streams","tag-streams-in-the-desert","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}