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Hebrews 10:35 · World English Bible

Hebrews 10:35 Meaning Therefore Don’t Throw Away Your Boldness

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

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What does Hebrews 10:35 mean?

Confidence is an asset a person can throw away, usually right before it would have paid off. The mind under pressure wants to drop the picture of success and grab the picture of failure, and once it does, the goal-striving machinery starts aiming at the wrong target.

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Confidence is an asset a person can throw away, usually right before it would have paid off. The mind under pressure wants to drop the picture of success and grab the picture of failure, and once it does, the goal-striving machinery starts aiming at the wrong target. The confidence itself is what carries the reward inside it.

Holding on is quieter than it sounds. When a man refuses to trade his settled expectation for a fearful one, the mechanism keeps steering him toward what he first pictured. The recompense waits on the far side of that steadiness.

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Live Hebrews 10:35 today

  1. Name the one thing you are closest to giving up on, and give it one more honest day before you decide. Fear is loudest right before the turn.
  2. When someone in your group chat talks themselves out of something good, say plainly that you think they can do it. Your steadiness can hold their picture up while theirs wobbles.
  3. Under pressure, when your mind flips to the worst version, put the first picture back. Say the outcome you expect once, simply, and keep working toward it.

What were you sure of last month that you have quietly started to doubt?

The same truth in other traditions

Bhagavad Gita 6

The steady mind is like a lamp in a sheltered place, unflickering. It is the wavering, not the wind, that puts out the light.

Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius

The obstacle does not get to decide your bearing. Keep your course and the thing in the road becomes part of the road.

Sufism · Rumi

Do not sell the garden you were promised for the first fear that offers to buy it. Hold on past the hour when holding on feels foolish.

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