Stand on Christ who can strengthen you in temptation. Stand on Christ who paid for your sins completely. Stand on Christ who alone conquered death. Stand on Christ who prays and intercedes for you even now. Stand on Christ who calls all who thirst to come to him and drink of living water, to eat the bread of life. Stand on Christ who promises to never cast out those who truly come to him. Stand on Christ who will lose absolutely none of the those the Father has given him. Stand on Christ who is coming to make all things new. Joash stood on Jehoiada, and so he fell. You are to stand on Christ and live. That is your hope for perseverance. That is your hope in life and death; that we are not our own but belong body and soul, in life and in death, to our faithful Savior Jesus Christ!
