"Taking Hold of Life"

Now that we are on the subject, I thought would be a good time to talk about what it means to 'take hold' of the Life which God has to offer us. Some may think that it is the other way around, and that it is God who takes hold of us; in a way, that is true, but only in a spiritual sense. This is the making of what faith really means; faith must have substance, which means that there must be something to take hold of for there to be something to have faith in. For example, the rope which I referred to yesterday, which was handed to you as you were falling over the cliff; that rope must be real. As a matter of fact, that cliff must be real also! Which brings me to the point of 'Hell', and whether or not it is real. Do you know that Jesus spoke more of hell than He did of heaven? But people say, How can a loving God send people to hell? See, that's my point; the cliff is real, and He is not pushing us off the cliff, He is the one handing us the rope!!! This was the point Jesus was making to Nicodemus in John 3:14-18, that we are condemned to hell all ready; that the cliff is real, and we are already tipping over the edge, past the point of saving ourselves. So, to understand the importance of that rope which has been given that we may take hold of, we must first understand the danger that we are in. Imagine for a moment, that there was a fluffy pillow or net below you as you were facing the fall down that cliff; that would make the need to take hold of that rope less necessary, wouldn't it? Not only that, but it would make the need to keep holding onto that rope less essential... "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made the High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." (Hebrews 6:17-20)