"Hanging On"

"When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday." (Psalms 42:4) No matter how you slice this, there is just a multitude of stuff within this verse that speaks forth normal days of asking for something more. Those would be days like today asking for the experience of yesterday; or even the afternoon longing for that which was felt in the morning. It might be something we tend to look back on, something which caused us to get serious with God, maybe even a certain word that spoke into our hearts; and yet, we try and reproduce that experience or that fervent moment, and the words just don't seem to have that same affect as they did when they affected the change that they did before. It's okay, because God does not always work in us the same way each and every time; which is actually a really good thing, because we need to always be expecting something new and exciting to happen in our lives, because God is always working in us a change in Him. It is kind of like the simple verse of The Song of Songs 1:16, which says, "Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green"; for there is nothing that is old or mundane when it comes to our relationship with the Living God; there really isn't a routine relationship when you are walking in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God goes where He wants to go (John 3:8). We do however need to make sure that we are holding on, which is made sure by staying in the Word, fellowship with other believers, a dedicated prayer life, listening for and obeying His voice, and dying daily to the flesh; all of which require us to stay committed to the battle, and pressing up to the front lines of the personal battles within our own lives, and then letting Jesus take out our giants for us. When we live our life as a warrior in His army, then it's not a matter of holding on anymore, it becomes a matter of hanging on, because the ride is going to be filled with all sorts of exciting things... "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain into life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1:2-8)