The Holdfast.
I’ll kick off this blog by posting the poem from which the blog takes its name.
George Herbert
THE HOLDFAST.
I THREATENED to observe the strict decree
Of my dear God with all my power and might :
But I was told by one, it could not be ;
Yet I might trust in God to be my light.
Then will I trust, said I, in him alone.
Nay, evā??n to trust in him, was also his :
We must confess, that nothing is our own.
Then I confess that he my succour is :
But to have nought is ours, not to confess
That we have nought. I stood amazā??d at this,
Much troubled, till I heard a friend express,
That all things were more ours by being his.
What Adam had, and forfeited for all,
Christ keepeth now, who cannot fail or fall.