Do not cast away your confidence.
It didn’t mean much to me. Honestly, hadn’t even noticed it in the passage before. There were more important truths, more important recommendations, more important things to meditate on. “Casting away your confidence” was just a phrase of filler words to get to the point.
But the more things have crumbled around me… In this city… In our global fears… In my own relationships… In my own life… It’s somehow managed to come up again and again.
Do not cast away your confidence.
It wasn’t just a filler. It was a command. A command to hold on like crazy to the most important things. Because when life gets hard, and it will, it’s hard to remember the good things. But it’s very hard to dig through a firm foundation.
So we do not cast away our 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.’ And, ‘But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.’ But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.”
Hebrews 10:32-39
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