Mensa Otabil - God Rewards Our Confidence in Him
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Faith in God and obeying Him while doing His will builds confidence in our lives. Anytime we start trusting God and align His word to stay in our hearts, we become more confident people. The future becomes very hopeful and expectant, even in a season of uncertainty and chaos. When God’s Word is anchored in us, we have confidence, and that confidence is important for us to win the battles of life. The book of Hebrews tells us in Hebrews chapter 10, verses 35 to 36: «Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has a great reward, for you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.» Therefore, do not cast away your confidence. Why? Because your confidence has a great reward. The confidence we have in God and in His word makes us very hopeful about the future.
It is not self-delusion; it’s not hallucination. You are not just trying to pep yourself up. That confidence, as the scripture says, has great reward. Many times we start with confidence, believing God is in charge and in control. We think things are going to work out for us and that we will overcome. Then, we hit the storms of life, face some bad patches, and all of a sudden, we cast away our confidence. We start feeling very unsure of our future. But the Bible says, «Don’t cast away your confidence,» and that is what I want to encourage you with today. Don’t cast away your confidence. The passage also encourages us to endure. To endure means to stay on track, like someone running a marathon. A marathon requires endurance. Endurance means you keep running, pushing on, even when you feel tired and weak. You keep going because there is a reward for you. God rewards our confidence in Him.
The three Hebrew boys in the book of Daniel, who were thrown into a fiery furnace, had confidence in God that even in the fire, God would deliver them. They said, «Even if God doesn’t deliver us, we still have confidence in Him.» That is the kind of confidence we must have—not to cast away our confidence in the midst of the fiery trials of life, in the midst of hearing news that depresses us, or seeing things that instill fear in us. Don’t cast away your confidence. Why? Because God is a rewarder of our confidence in Him, and He will cause us to receive the promise when we endure to the end. So, I came to encourage you; there is so much working on your behalf—God is at work for you. Be confident in Him, trust in Him, and hold on to Him. Don’t cast away your confidence because it has a great reward in the end. I am Pastor Mensa Otabil. Shalom, peace and life to you.