“Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.”
Revelation 3:10-11 NKJV
What does it mean to hold fast? And what is Jesus asking us to hold fast to? Both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible heavily use this term to express the utmost gravity of its meaning.
Hold fast, in its literary meaning, implies to hold on, and tightly to; remain in. In relation to the Bible, the physical meaning is suppressed more so by the spiritual state, no longer having bodily representation, in which holding fast exalts the human spirit to endure beyond its physical condition.
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