Confidence and Promise
Where does your confidence reside? What do you place your confidence in? Have you ever neglected or thrown away your confidence?
We all place our hope, trust, and confidence in something or someone. What we place our confidence in gives us assurance of future hope and promise, or it leads us to despair or deficit.
As followers of Jesus, our confidence is in God’s faithfulness, which comes with great promise.
It is possible for us to have confidence in the wrong people or things. We can misdirect or throw away our confidence, and thereby throw away God’s good reward and promise.
The author of Hebrews instructs us in this regard, saying, “Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.” (Hebrews 10:35-36, ESV).
Our confidence in God is a sure confidence which comes with it great reward if we do not neglect it or throw it away.
Holding to our confidence in God requires faithful endurance until we receive God’s promised reward.
When we endure and do the will of God, placing our confidence in him, we receive all the good reward that God promises for those who keep their confidence in him and endure to the end.
May we place our full confidence in God and his promises for us so that we do not throw away our confidence and our certain hope and eternal reward which God has for us.
A Collect for the Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost, (Proper 28): “Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people, that bringing forth in abundance the fruit of good works, they may be abundantly rewarded when our Savior Jesus Christ comes to restore all things; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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