What are you confident in? Are you confident in your own abilities? Are you confident in the ability of others? Are you convinced you can complete what you started? Have you ever failed? Has someone failed you? Would you like to have confidence in someone who will not fail?
Confidence can put us over the top to accomplish something we might otherwise fail at. It may be our confidence in ourselves that allows us to overachieve. Yet confidence can progress into cockiness. Cockiness can lead us to failure. There is a balance needed to be successful.
There is one who we can be confident in. There is a task we can be confident he will finish. We can be confident in God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We can be confident that his work will be completed. When he starts his work on us, changing us into the person he designed us to be, he will complete his work.
It is true that we must be willing. But God can turn around the life of even the most hardened criminal. Just look at what God did with many of the people in the Bible. The Apostle Paul was persecuting the church and among those who were yelling for Stephen’s death in Acts 7 and 8. God turned him around and he became one of the most active apostles, planting many churches.
God has worked many good works in this world. Jesus died to save the world from its sin. The Holy Spirit moves throughout the earth and takes up residence in each of us. The Father has a plan and remains in control of executing his plan regardless of how mankind acts. So, we can put our confidence in God. We can believe that he will complete the work he has started.
I pray we all put our confidence in God. I pray we open our eyes to see him working in this world. I pray each one of us is willing to follow God’s plan for our life. Put your confidence in God. Believe the Father is in control. Believe Jesus died for you. Believe the Holy Spirit will guide you. Know that God will complete his plan.
Philippians 1:6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.
Marty Pressey 