We all have certain things that we place our confidence in. I am confident in my bank to protect my funds. I am confident in my husband’s love. I am confident my car to crank when I need to go somewhere. Yet, while my confidence in these things is solid, they are all fallible. Nothing on this earth is without situations where it can fail, but there is one thing I can say is infallible and that is my God. My confidence for my eternity is in Him, and my confidence for today is in Him. As the writer of Hebrews states in 13:6, I can say the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man can do to me. I know my God is in ultimate control of the universe, and what He deems for my life is what is best. While I may not understand or even like some circumstances, in His hands, they will bring Him glory and ultimately be the best thing for me. After all, His design for my life, according to Romans 8:29, is to conform me to the image of Jesus, and that cannot happen without discomfort.
Hebrews 13:6 “So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”
In Psalm 37:25, we find David making a bold statement that he has never seen the righteous forsaken or God’s children begging for bread. David often was on the run from an enemy. Sometimes it caught him in situations where he must depend on others for a meal. Yet, even then, his confidence was in God to provide. Through all of his struggles, he never turns his back on God. When he sinned, he repented, and when in distress, he cried out to God. His confidence was in his God and no one else.
Psalm 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
In the book of Job we see a man that God greatly blessed with wealth and all that can go with that. Yet, God allowed Satan to inflict harm on Job as proof that he loved Him and would remain true. In Job chapters 1 and 2, Job experienced horrible pain and the loss of his property and his children. Now, in Job 2:9, his wife tells him to curse God and die. Job rebukes her and remains confident in His God. In times of testing and trials, we must hold on as Job did to the only one who can help us. We must keep our eyes focused on the final prize of eternal life with Jesus in Heaven.
Job 2:9-10 “Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. But he said unto her, Thou speaks as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.”
We can be confident that He will forgive us. In I John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” How can I be so confident in this? Because God cannot lie. In Titus 1:2, Paul reminds us of this truth. “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.” By faith, we believe God. Because He cannot lie, we can be confident of our eternal destiny when we place our faith in Him, and by His grace, He saves us.
I am confident He will hear me when I pray and answer. In I John 5:13-14 John writes, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” As long as I am living as His child, He will hear me and answer as a Father. He will answer according to His will for our lives. Obedient children are always blessed by the Father.
We can have confidence in others because we have confidence in God. In Galatians 5:10, Paul tells the church that he has confidence in them through the Lord. While they had been led astray by false opinions, Paul had confidence in their reverence for the Lord that they would return and embrace the truth. He also had confidence that whoever was teaching them wrong would be judged by God.
Galatians 5:10 “I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.”
We have a God we can trust completely. The one who created everything in 6 days surely has the power to keep His promises. The God who loved me so much that He made a way to forgive me by the sacrificing of His Son is a God who can be trusted in all things. We can be confident in Him. In Hebrews 3:6, we are challenged to hold on and stay faithful until the end. The evidence that we belong to the family of God is that we exhibit a confidence until the end.
Hebrews 3:6 “But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.”
To ensure our confidence does not waiver, we must stay in communion with God, study His word, pray, and seek Him daily. To have complete confidence in anyone, you must get to know them, and God is no different.
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