Cast Not Away Your Confidence -- part 2

Last week we started a discussion of the verse from Hebrews 10:35 (NKJV) that says, “ Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.” If you did not read through last week’s blog entry, please do that now before continuing with today’s selection. It will give you some good foundational information for our further discussion.

Let’s start by comparing a few other Bible translations of Hebrews 10:35 to expand our understanding of this verse.

NLT:  So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!

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

AMP: Do not, therefore, fling away your [fearless] confidence, for it has a glorious and great reward.

NASB:  Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

ASV:  Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.

Bottom line . . . We must HOLD ON to our confidence! Mothers of Nations, holding fast and standing firm will produce joyful and exultant confidence and a sense of triumph in our hope in Christ.

Hebrews 3:1-14 (NLT)

And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest. ² For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God’s entire house. ³ But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves more praise than the house itself. ⁴ For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.

⁵ Moses was certainly faithful in God’s house as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal later. ⁶ But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.

⁷ That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear his voice, ⁸ don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness. ⁹ There your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years. ¹⁰ So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from me.
They refuse to do what I tell them.’ ¹¹ So in my anger I took an oath ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’

¹² Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. ¹³ You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. ¹⁴ For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.

Mothers of Nations, as a final thought today, what can happen to us if we DO NOT hold fast and stand firm in our confidence? Next week let’s examine some “confidence destroyers.”  Until then, be alert in the next several days to situations in your own life where you sense your confidence waning. We might just talk about your experience next week!

Confident in Christ,

Dr. Sharon Predovich