Verse 25.  However, that which[1]ye[2]have[3]hold fast[4]till I come.

That which ye have refers to verse 19.  They have and work out Christ-like conduct toward each other and a right feeling toward other Christians[5].  They serve Christ through serving one another with this same spirit[6].  They keep their faith healthy and strong by using it in every aspect of their lives know how to wait patiently for God to work while they work at letting God work His will through them.

“Hold fast to that which ye have has the same message as “stand”[7], “observe to do”[8] or pay attention and accomplish.  Eagerly give yourself to God tested and found good, a worker that does not need to feel ashamed (that he/she has lost his/her honor because of wrong or foolish acts).  Cut straight the Word of Truth according to the pattern that was given by God on the Mount and written in the hearts of the Redeemed through the blood of Jesus[9].

Prayer:  Lord, I will, by the strength of Your might and according to the power of Your holy Spirit that works within me, stand firm on Your Word of Truth.  Your Word conforms to reality and is intimate with fact.  I will live by Your pattern, steadfastly gaze, through the pages of Your Word, into the face of the One from whom the pattern was drawn.  It is my desire to be like Jesus, to be conformed to the image of Your Son.

To you[1]I say and to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching[2]and who knew not the depths of Satan[3]as they say; I will not cast upon you any other burden.

Jesus said a wonderful thing to the assembly at Thyatira who had been steadfastly applying deeds of love, and to all of the assemblies everywhere through all time.  He said, “I will lay no other burden on you”[4], reminding us of His earlier words when He said, “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light”[5].  When we become fully acquainted with God (when we bond with God and are in harmony with Him), His love flows through us to others, and that is His burden.  He said that when we love Him above all else and acquire self-denial, we find life[6].  God is love, so God’s life radiates love and life and spreads to others.  

Prayer:  Thank You Lord for revealing Yourself to me through Jesus.  You speak to me through Your Word and it is through Him that I can be intimately involved with You because He is Immanuel, God with us.  He prayed for me in the garden and His prayer was a revelation of Your will for me, so I know that You want me to reflect the glory that You gave Your Son.  You want me to cling on to the treasure of Your Word and I know that You hold me in Your place of safety and protection.  You want Your joy to be fulfilled in me and for me to be set apart by Your Word.  You want me to be in harmony with the other members of Your body.  I pray that Your will shall be done in my life, O Lord God Almighty.

And I will destroy her children with death[1]; and all the assemblies shall know that I AM the one who searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

Way back in the garden of Eden when Adam and Eve realized that their decision to ignore and even change the laws of nature had brought injury and final ruin to all of the natural world, including mankind, their reaction was to try to cover the corruption and hide from God.  Ever since that fatal day when they choose to follow the desires of their own egos and open the door to all of the distorted and injured desires of the corrupted nature, and shut the light out, the world has cried out in anger, “How could a loving God allow this suffering and death?”  Ever since the Garden of Eden God has promised to abolish evil for good, to separate it irrevocably from life.  Mankind is still trying to cover up his/her evil desires and hide the actions that result from the desire.  He embraces his/her evil nature as a lover and dresses it in the finest garments of ideal principle that the corrupted mind can invent.  However, when mankind looks at his/her carefully constructed robes of righteousness through the mirror of the Word of God, he/she sees that they are all soiled and moth eaten, the work of an amateur constructed of faulty material with the seams all-askew.  Those who choose to open the door to the Light, reveal the destructive force in their natures, and give it up, to be washed in the blood of the Lamb and re- created by the power of God[2], have the promise of a new life[3] where death is swallowed up in victory[4].