Do Not Throw Away Your Confidence

“Remember those earlier days after you had received the light,

when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution;

at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.

You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God,

you will receive what he has promised.

For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.”

Hebrews 10:32-37

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t throw away your confidence.

What does that mean?

I picture someone who is cleaning out a closet or a garage and they come upon something that once held great value for them.

Maybe it’s a sports trophy, an award for public service or something hand-crafted that took them weeks and weeks of labor.  

They have forgotten the price they paid to possess it, so it, like so many other things, gets thrown away.

Our confidence in God is built through our relationship with Him.

It is built over time and through the trials and triumphs of our daily walk.

Discouragement, weariness in the battle, forgetting what has gone before, all of these things can cause us to throw away our confidence in a weak moment.

That is why the writer of the Epistle tells us to persevere when we have done the will of God.

Don’t give in or give up.

The promise is on its’ way.

We can lose sight of that.

When we see only with our natural eyes we miss so much.

Confidently look with the eyes of the Spirit to see so much…more!

Don’t throw away your confidence – hold fast, hold firm and persevere!

 

Memory Verse Assignment

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

I John 5:14-15