“CONFIDENCE!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 753

September 16, 2025///

I sometimes see on the television a commercial about a GMC Truck.

The lead to the commercial is “Confidence does not come from within.”

Oh, I want to scream at the TV that confidence is absolutely from within!

Our confidence or lack of it comes from the belief (wrong or right), deep within us about who we are!

Are we pretty, are we smart, can we do what we desire, are we loved, are we good enough?

Some of that comes from the way we were raised, and some comes from the environment we are in, and that what others say is important. All that affects who we are deep inside!

But about a week ago we saw confidence in who he was, in action as Charlie Kirk shared and listened and debated on a college campus. Charlie Kirk lived and shared with a confidence of who he was in Christ and who Christ was in him.

You see it is only in understanding who we are created to be and taking on the mantle the Heavenly Father places on us, can we walk in true confidence that comes from knowing the truth that sets us free to be all we are created to be!

Charlie Kirk had surrendered who he thought he was to who he knew he was in Christ Jesus. Jesus makes us new inside and invades us with peace and joy and the confidence that our next breath could be in the presence of Jesus.

How about you this morning? Do you have the confidence that your last breath here will take you right into the heaven, to the presence of our Savior and Creator God!

Yes, evil took Charlie Kirk’s life, but God will take that evil and turn it around for the Glory of the Father.

Maybe you are saying to yourself “I don’t understand how that could have happened?”

When we have the confidence Christ gives, we can trust God’s loving nature even when we cannot see His actions!

The word has much to say about confidence and I will share just a few. Read them slowly and let the truth get deep inside you!

Philippians 1:6 (KJV) Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Proverbs 3:26 (KJV) For the Lord shall be thy confidence, And shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Proverbs 3:26 (TPT) because God is your confidence in times of crisis, keeping your heart at rest in every situation.

Proverbs 14:26 (KJV) In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: And his children shall have a place of refuge.

**This fear is reverence and honor!

Isaiah 30:15B (KJV)In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:

Ephesians 3:12 (KJV) In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

Look at Proverbs 3:26 above, in the passion translation. What should our response be as we face a crisis like we have faced this last week?

WALKING AT REST IN OUR HEARTS BECAUSE GOD IS OUR CONFIDENCE!

The confidence God gives cannot be defeat by evil!

The Apostle Paul said it well:

2 Corinthians 4:8 (KJV) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Why? Because our confidence is in Jesus Christ our Lord!

In what or in who is your confidence?

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Father, when we see evil, our hearts are moved with compassion for those who are affected. But we also, as your children, must consider why hate was in the heart of the one who carries out evil attacks. Our world needs to hear about the love of Jesus! Help each of us to walk in the confidence you give us. That is the confidence that will change the world for good! Thank you for the confidence you give! I ask in the precious name of Jesus! Amen!

Love, Me-Maw!