Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. – Hebrews 10:35
There’s a connection between your confidence and the reward you seek.
Your confidence, not other people’s confidence.
Your confidence: that free and fearless, audaciously optimistic, inner certainty of things that nobody else can see.
I know that I can do this. I know that this is going to work…
This isn’t wishful or wistful thinking. You’ve seen something on the inside that you’re more sure of than the things you see on the outside.
And when you’re feeling discouraged because “it hasn’t happened yet”, read the next verse (Heb 10:36):
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Confidence isn’t a lone wolf.
Confidence and patience always move together.