Confident

In the dictionary this word means marked by confidence in oneself, self-assured, marked by assurance, as of success.  What are you trusting in that makes you so confident?  2 Kings 18:19 states what confidence is this where you trust?  This same question is being asked of many today.  Many people placed their confidence in the banks, their jobs and the government.  A lot of people have lost their life savings, jobs and the things that they thought would provide for them.  What, whom or where are we placing our confidence?  We can’t trust the government, the banks or others to take care of us.  We must stand firm on the Word of God and know that God is faithful and will bring us through.  We may have to endure some things that none of us have experienced before.  God’s word states that endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation in Romans 5:4.  In the midst of everything we know that even though a mighty army surrounds us, our heart will not be afraid.  Even if we are attacked, we will remain confident. (Psalm 27:3) We know that something is coming but we are not sure what or when.  We can prepare as the Lord instructs us but there is only one thing that will sustain us.  Our confidence in knowing that we serve a God that protects us and will provide our needs.  The Word of God states you have never sent the righteous forsaken nor His seed begging for bread.  (Psalm 37:5)  As for us, we look to the Lord for help. We wait confidently for God to save us and our God will certainly hear us.  (Micah 7:7)  Our hearts are confident in the Lord, O God; our heart is confident.  No wonder we can sing your praises?  (Psalm 57:7)  In the midst of everything we must remember to Praise the Lord.  How would we react if you were set in front of a firing squad?  Would you be confident in knowing that Christ was with you?  There is a movie called China Cry where the lady was placed in front of a firing squad but the Lord intervened and she was not shot.  This lady suffered much abuse at the hands of the government but God delivered her and she was reunited with her family.  If our life was taken are we confident in knowing that being absent from this body is to be present with the Lord.  (2 Corinthians 5:8)