The motto of Spurgeon's College shows a hand holding a cross. About both are the Latin words, Teneo et teneor:"I both hold and am held." Good as the first word is, the last is better. It is fine to hold the cross; it is far finer to be held by it. St. Jude's word "keep" (ver. 21) is a necessary injunction, but St. Peter's word "kept" reveals the grace which makes the other possible.

We hold the cross, but we are held by the cross. We keep ourselves in the love of God, but we are kept by the power of God. "My Beloved is mine" passes on to the more satisfying, blessed fact of ownership on His part:"I am His!"
"HE BRINGETH THEM UNTO THEIR DESIRE HAVEN"