So I sang Love Shack with Megan, David Shaw and Kendall. Never did I think I would ever be confident to do such a thing. Never did I think I would have done that.. Nonetheless in sweatpants…Never did I think I would care so less about what people thought.
The Lord has been teaching me a lot about confidence this year.. But more so this month. He has been teaching me about being confident in who he has made me to be. He is teaching me ultimately confidence in him.
It’s interesting how confidence in him… just spills over to everything else. I am confident in the Lord. He tells me who I am daily. I know that he loves me and he daily chooses me and made me to be worthy of such a great destiny. And because I know that he loves me so much. It allows me to love myself. Without sounding cocky or conceited, my eyes have been opened to see how God sees me. I am humbled and for once can say that I actually love myself. “Love yourself as you love your neighbor.” Well it was always easier for me to love my neighbor, but truly loving myself this year has allowed me to love those around me in such a deeper and more real way than I ever had been able to before.
Confidence was something I never had growing up. Sure, I was loud. Sure, I could easily fake it. My confidence I used to portray or let people think about me was really my insecurity coming through. Inside, I honestly feared what people thought of me. Confidence is something that my mighty Father has taught me.
I know that I have written numerous blogs about this. I would apologize but this is something huge that God has been teaching me this year. I have also learned that in regards to everything, one doesn’t just learn the lesson and it’s done. One keeps on learning patience, one keeps on learning unconditional love. Those are ongoing for me… along with confidence.
“And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming” 1 John 2: 28
“How great is the love the father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE!!” 1 John 3:1
I read and meditated on 1 John a lot this month. I just love love love love the confidence of the word. In the bible, it says “I will… this will…I am…He is..” THE WORD IS SO CONFIDENT. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s the very words of God. We as his sons and daughters are entrusted with it. So we should speak with the same confidence.
It made me re-evaluate the way I speak. Many times.. I say, “I might… I could.. ” NOOOOOO. Incorrect.
That’s how we should be speaking. We should be speaking knowing that we are called to be his mouthpiece. That the words we say will and uplift each other. The more that we are pouring into him, the more he will pour out of us onto others.
