“Have A God-confidence!”
This is a bold statement from a Bible study I attended this week. Wow! What would my life be like if I, indeed, had A God-Confidence?
I am very familiar with self-confidence; it is one personality trait I’ve always battled. I repeatedly have to work at maintaining a relationship with Confidence. She just doesn’t like to hang out with me for too long! So, I try; I strive to get by- and I get in my head, as they say, and squirm around -searching for that one specific thing, but I frequently feel as if I bump into a counterfeit!
In typical human fashion, and in contrast to this God-Confidence, I've always striven to have a “Rebecca confidence.” Taking it back to college and before, I put lots of swagger into having a “Becky confidence”; hence, I earned the nickname Hollywood! With all this will-power churning to maintain some semblance of confidence there has always been this shadow-of-doubt that lurked in my life…. And I’ll be honest and say, as I grimace in frustration, “That irks me”.
We’re all created differently and I enjoy being a God-given Go-getter. I can move & groove, multi-task with what I deem as perfection, and juggle it all- till bed time. But, true confidence alludes me. I lay down at times feeling as if something’s askew! It’s like a persistent mystery, that plagues! The night always haunts those of us who have this shadowy friend named Doubt.
However- this week, for the first time ever, I heard the statement “Have a God confidence”! Spiritually that seems to say "God's got this!" I want to jump for joy at the mental & spiritual door this has opened. Preparing in advance, God had already begun clearing space in my mind for the comprehension of this knowledge, and I’m so grateful. Spiritually, I’d seen God’s light sneaking through the cracked door- as it slowly started to open and this one statement seems to be force that welcomed in a new understanding- bringing with it a gracious revelation from God, Himself!
As an example of how the Lord has been working in advance to prepare my heart, in December I was moved to write a Prayer I entitled A Prayer of Re-focus. It says:
“Lord, you are MY God. You know me and hang out with me!
I am not trapped- for you are my guardian and guide…
and you are an expert on the way that I am traveling.
I am not afraid because you are with me.
My enemies have seen you at work and fear you….
and side-step me. Yes and Amen!
I am waiting!”
That’s a girl looking for some confidence! Dare I say, I was praying for A God Confidence!
In typical fashion, I’ve spent the better part of my life working, within my own mental power, to attain something that must come from God's power (at work within me). I am SO ready to see what having A God-Confidence looks and feels like…and what it produces in my life. The Lord has a plan for each of us and with A God-confidence-I can only dare to imagine what my future will be. Yippeeee!
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably
More than all we ask or imagine,
According to his power that is at work within us,
to him be glory in the church and in
Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:21
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
Plans to give you a hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
“Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterwards you will take me into glory.Whom have I in heaven but you?
My flesh and my heart may. fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever."
Psalm 73:23-26
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