Courage and hope

Paul was encouraging and warning the Hebrew Christians who had been undergoing great affliction and persecution not to give up on trusting in God to show himself strong on their behalf. Courage (heart) is putting your heart into the truth that you believe in.
1. Hebrews 2:1-4 – In one ear and out the other (flow by - drift away)
2. Hebrews 3:7–4:13 – hardening of heart and not entering the rest
3. Hebrews 5:11–6:20 – not hearing deeply enough – milk and not meat.
4. Hebrews10: 33 – Casting away your confidence.
5. Hebrews12:15-29 – falling short of grace and despising their inheritance like Esau.

Hebrews 10:33. Some of you were on center stage (theatrizo) with insults and threats being hurled at you, and some of you stood firmly with others who were getting that kind of treatment.
34. You certainly felt for me when I was chained up and treated like that. You didn’t seem to care how you were treated or what was taken from you. You knew you had greater and abiding heavenly treasures.
35. So don’t lose that confident expectation of God that you lived in and spoke with, because it generates a great and mighty reward.
36. But you have to see things through, so that having trusted God to the full, you will be rewarded to the full.
37. He will arrive for you on time, and will not be late.
38. If you know you are his you live by faith and trust in him, but if you lack the courage to trust him you won’t be pleasing his heart.
39. But we are not like those who lose courage and walk away from him, and waste everything worth living for. We are those who trust and believe and experience a powerful and ongoing conversion of our hearts and minds.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the reality of your hope and expectation of God’s goodness to be at work for your tomorrows. It is also the assurance of his work on your behalf for today, in the world of the unseen.

COURAGE (requires confidence in a purpose and reality that is bigger than yourself)
Psalm 31:24 Be of good courage (heart -coeur) and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

God shows himself strong by strengthening our heart not always by changing the circumstances from the outside but by bringing a strengthening of faith inside. I will take this perfection process on board completely and let go of everything else. 

FAITH AND HOPE
Our hope is the expectation of God’s goodness to be at work for our tomorrows. This is the basis for our faith, and is ours to experience continually and in all circumstances.