So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering
the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgment of it,
for He who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His Word.
Hebrew 10:23 AMP
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In the KJV the same verse says,
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering
(for He is faithful that promised).
What are we seeing here? Hope is the profession of our faith. What is ‘profession’ then? In biblical terms, this is a calling. It is ‘an occupation, practice, or vocation requiring mastery of a complex set of knowledge and skills through formal education and/or practical…’.
So if we take the AMP version that we should hold fast…without wavering…the hope, we are saying we should take the profession of our faith without wavering.
In a business world setting, if you know that you are an accountant, anything concerning administration does not concern you because there is nothing you can do about it. You are not trained for that and you do not have knowledge concerning it. This is also true with the profession of our faith…we are called in this field of hope in which we are being trained to hope in the Lord, we are being equipped to undertake this profession without wavering.
We are called to this profession ourselves because God already knows that we need training. The training is the faith which needs to be exercised on a daily basis.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God…
Romans 10:17
Once you hear the Word of God, hope in the Lord moves from one level of glory to the other. Faith and hope are inseparable professions that we as believers need to know and must have. We need to combine these professions if we want to live a successful life. A life of abundance only comes when we take our certificates in the profession which are desire, prayers, and belief. (“What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them” Mark 11: 24).
For God to act on anything we need to have hope and faith in God. Don’t doubt God. Brethren I have never seen the righteous forsaken therefore let us hold fast our profession in God for He never fails. Those marriages we are hoping for will come…finances needed…babies we desire…. All these will only come when we exercise our profession (HOPE).
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Father, I thank You for the wonderful time we had in Your Presence. Thank You for the Scripture we have read; we pray and believe that grace shall abound in us that we shall do our profession without wavering. Grant us that grace, Lord, for we need it to exercise our inheritance in Your Kingdom. For without faith we cannot please You! We need it time and time again. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Thank you, Ann, for guiding me to meditate on this Scripture in another light. I always have thought of “profession” as speaking out, but I like that it is our “calling,” our vocation, too. As you pointed out, for that we need to be trained, and what better place than in the Word of God. As we build our faith, our hope will grow stronger.
“Amen” to your prayer.