How confident are you? Are you confident in your life? Are you confident in your job? Are you confident in your relationships? Do you walk in your confidence? Or is it all a façade? Do you merely put on a good face to convince people you are confident and have it all together?
Being confident can be challenging. Sometimes, there is a fine line between confidence and cockiness. Walking that razors edge can also be a challenge. Many people have struggled to walk that line, often going beyond confidence to cockiness only to fall hard.
Here is the question we all should be wrestling with. Are we confident in our faith? Faith requires us to believe in God though we cannot see him. Faith requires us to trust that God is in control when everything appears to be out of control. Faith requires us to stand firm in the promises of God, even when our culture tells us they are fake news.
Confidence in God can be scary. When we step out on the limb of faith, Satan will send a hurricane force wind to knock us off. He will shake that limb as hard as he can. He wants us to give up our faith. Yet, when we hold on to that faith, we will see God do amazing things. We will be part of him doing them. He will use us in accomplishing them.
Walking by faith can be like walking around our house in the dark without a light. We know where things are. We know how many steps from the door of our bedroom to the bathroom door. We know how many steps down the hall before we get to the staircase. Yet, when we cannot see, it can be intimidating. But faith carries us through those situations. Faith carries us through the storms of life. Continue to be confident in your faith.
I pray we all are confident in our faith. I pray we trust in God’s promises. I pray each one of us will walk by our faith rather than by sight being confident that God is in control at all times. Be confident in God. Be confident in your faith. Trust God’s promises. Know God is in control.
2 Corinthians 5:6-7 So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Marty Pressey 