The verse used for today's entry in Streams In The Desert daily devotional is Hebrews 3:14 which says,

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.

What is the beginning of our confidence? Is it not that in-Christ God forgives sins and grants the power to overcome the world and stop sinning by our Faith? Is it not that God will sustain, nurture, guide, instruct, teach, protect, correct, mature and complete this New Life being Faithful to His Word e.g., sending the Holy Spirit, the Helper/Comforter to be with us always and lead us into all Truth - never to forsake us?

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. MATTHEW 28:20

Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me has life eternal. JOHN 6:47

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. JOHN 8:12

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;
and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this? JOHN 11:25,26

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. John 14:16-18

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. JOHN 16:13

And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ACTS 2:21

Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear. ACTS 2:33

And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call. ACTS 2:38,39

To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins. ACTS 10:43

God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:9

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:13

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform (or, complete) it until the day of Jesus Christ. PHILIPPIANS 1:6

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23,24

Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. HEBREWS 2:17

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. HEBREWS 13:5

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. 1 PETER 4:19

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 JOHN 1:7

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 JOHN 1:9

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; REVELATION 3:14