Confidence in Christ

Not too long ago I had a family member die. It was the most life changing thing that could’ve happened to me. One of the results of this was my coming to Christ, and when this happened I enjoyed an incredibly close relationship with the lord. During this time my life was completely changed around for the lord. Lately however there has been a major switch in my spiritual life and the rest of my life as well. Don’t mistake me, this isn’t a good change. I feel like there’s been a growing gap between me and the Lord.
This has been perplexing me for the longest time ever since it really began. Today the Lord revealed why I was doing this and why I was growing away from Him. It was because I’d been focusing and putting my confidence in myself and not in God like I had been doing. This is what has been going on in my spiritual life. Because of my putting my confidence in myself there has been a gap in my satisfaction in life. So that is something that I need to work on.
The reason that I write this blog about my personal revelation today is that I believe that we are doing this to much these days. We are putting ourselves up to fail. We look a lot to ourselves these days. We go home and we plop down on the couch and we wonder “What am I supposed to do?” instead we should be asking “God tell me what to do?” We do this day in and day out thinking that we are supposed to be doing everything and achieving everything on our own when that isn’t what God told us to do.
What God told us to do is to live for him and to trust Him. To have confidence in Him. By having confidence in Him we make our lives easier by going to God and having Him come and prepare us the way that we need to in order to slay our own personal giants. When we have confidence in God he gives us what we need. When we don’t though it’s like going into battle with a child’s sling-shot, and a t-shirt. When we go to God and have confidence in Him we are dressed in His armor that He gives us. Then we can defeat whatever is oppressing us.
So friends it’s time to stop leaning on ourselves and trying to put the world on our shoulders and lean into God and have confidence in Him. We must not simply believe in God, we must believe God.