What will Our Confidence Be for 2012?
Sister Peggy Little
Confidence is a dynamic character trait that often can spell the difference between accomplishment and failure. For the person who is besieged with feelings of inferiority, life can be a continual struggle for competence and acceptance.
The Christian should be confident, for “the righteous are bold as a lion” (Proverbs 28:1). Though he or she may have occasional bouts with insecurity and doubt, confidence should dominate the believer’s life.
The reason is really quite simple. Once born again, the Christian has entered into a relationship with an all-sufficient God who is more than able to handle any difficulty, enabling Him to say to the psalmist: “Though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident” (Psalm 27:3).
We can be confident because we have unlimited access to God. “Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus” (Hebrews 10:19). For whatever you need, you have access to the very presence of God.
Do you need wisdom? Are you searching for an answer in dealing with your rebellious child? Does your budget need divine intervention? Because of Calvary, you can avail yourself of the resources of the all-knowing God.
We can be confident because we understand that God is in control. Listen: Though the economic outlook may be gloomy or circumstances discouraging, our sovereign God is ruling over all, working for His glory and our good. Our future is in His all-powerful hands. “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). Our well-being is not left to chance or fate.
We can be confident because God is our total adequacy for any demand placed upon us. “And such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God” (2 Corinthians 3:4-5). We no longer have to look to our own initiative or training or cleverness.
We can be confident because God assures us that He will complete what He has begun in our lives (Philippians 1:6) and that He will never leave us or forsake us in the process. (Hebrews 15:5). In other words, God is for us. Having been reconciled through the cross, and He is now on our side, not against us (Romans 8:31).
Finally, we can exhibit confidence in this life because, through Christ, we are prepared for the next life. “And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him. At His coming” (1 John 2:28).
Through our personal relationship with our Savior, we can be bold witnesses to an insecure world of the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ who is able to supply every need from His inexhaustible resources. God is for us, God is with us. God is in control of our futures. He is at work for our good. That is, I pray, our confidence for the year of 2012.
May you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year as each one of you do all you can for our Lord and Savior “Jesus Christ”. Remember, look to Him, for God has all of the answers. So let us pray and seek the Lord daily for our families, nation, Israel, our needs, our breakthroughs, our healings and especially salvation for all the lost souls and our loves ones. I pray you will call on Him to help you make it through those circumstances of life that comes your way. God Bless!
