You are confident! If you believe what the Scriptures say about you—how Christ sees you and values you—you will be confident. That confidence is what gives you the ability to excel in whatever your life calling is.
Confidence is not the same as arrogance or pride. Jesus was humble and lifted other people up, while being fully confident in who He was. He wants us to know who we are and be confident to walk in what He created us to do.
If you are with other people and you are confident, you can resist peer pressure. When you are confident in who you are, you will not allow people to treat you badly. This is because you have dignity given to you by God that cannot be taken away. You can gently point out to the person who is acting sinfully towards you, that showing honor is the way that God has commanded us to treat each other.
Confidence will make you a better wife because once you know that you have value, it shows in your eyes. You are no longer needy, and husbands love that. It frees them, because they don’t feel an anvil of trying to do what only God can do for you, which is to understand you and love you unconditionally. Husbands are attracted to their wives when they are confident because they look more beautiful. Confidence is a state of mind.
People who lack confidence are droopy and don’t get as much done. Their attitude is also one of self-pity rather than confidence in who God created us to be.
We are commanded to be confident to draw near to God because He will hear us and answer us because He is a good Father:
“Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16 NASB
We have confidence in the Lord, and for this reason, we can have confidence in what He says:
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.” Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
We don’t have to be perfect to have confidence. Even when we make mistakes, we can ask for forgiveness and have a clean slate. God is at work in our lives, and He will conform us more and more into His image as we yield to Him:
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1:6 NASB
We are all a work in progress, and we are told in Romans 8:1 that there is no condemnation for us, when we fail. God knows we are but dust, and He doesn’t expect out of us more than we can do. It’s only other people who put pressure on us to perform. Sadly a lot of that pressure comes from church-goers who expect everyone to never fail and never accidentally hurt anyone else with what they say.
Instead of judging each other harshly, we should realize that everyone is a work in progress, and everyone who is truly saved is on a path towards greater holiness. But God does the work. We don’t have to strive and strive and strive and fall over, feeling like an utter failure.
People who are confident have strength of character. Others look to them when times are rough because they are a rock to others. We can be immovable in our confidence, because that confidence and strength comes from Christ! That is why you can be confident!
“Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.” Acts 4:13 NASB
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Thanks for the great reminder that our confidence is rightfully placed in God. He is our shield and our defense. He is our strong tower and safe place. And He never fails. ~ Alicia
Amen! The source of our confidence is God Himself!
I believe when we have confidence in who God is it makes it easier to have confidence in our self. Our true worth and value comes from God and when we walk in this truth it is then manifested in our life.
If we know who God is and believe what He says about us, we are finally able to be confident in who we are!
I might not be super confident yet in my faith, but I’m a work-in-progress. Thank you for this reminder!
I think we are all a work in progress.
I wish I would have had this lesson when I was a preteen. My understanding of confidence was skewed into believing it was prideful and arrogant. This has had to be a lesson relearned many times over in my life.
Confidence is sometimes wrongly labeled as pride, but confidence brings out the best in other people and doesn’t put people down like pride does.
Hey, Susan. Thanks for the post. It’s so interesting. I have recently been reflecting on what it means to be confident as a Christian. As a working man I tend to tie my confidence to my performance. When one suffers so does the other. Where I’m growing is in placing my confidence in the Lord in lieu of my own abilities. Then all the truth you laid out comes about. Thanks for the reminders.
It’s easy to tie our confidence to our performance, not just for our work but in our walk with the Lord. It’s hard to re-program ourselves to rest in God’s grace, do the best we can, and know that God will be glorified when we yield to Him.