Confidence....in God!!!

As I sat on a leadership con call this morning, I kept wondering to myself who in the world thinks I am a leader? OK so once again my confidence was in question...OR was it?

See my struggle with confidence only becomes that when I am trying to be confident in my own skills and not in God. I thank God for showing me that this is the case.

Think about it for a moment. Our abilities are not enough to complete our God given purpose. If they were enough then we would not need God. Adam and Eve thought their abilities were enough and look at the impact that choice made.

God has chosen us to perform tasks for His glory. Why do we seem to think that He would leave us to our own abilities and devices to accomplish those tasks?

We quote scripture and even pray for His advice but then we don't wait to hear from Him. Even if we wait and hear His advice, we don't take it because we don't like what He says. We take matters into my own hands and then we become confounded (ahhhh somebody went to ToE last night LOL) when it does not turn out the way we expected. We really did not want his advice, we wanted a Yes man. We just wanted someone to agree with us. We wanted God's blessing to stay out of His will.

I chose to put my confidence in God. I trust God and I know His abilities. He does not have a plan to make us fail nor to embarrass us. He has a good plan for our lives.

By the time the call ended I had even more confidence in God. Now it is up to me to execute His plan, His way. After all, His ways are not my ways and His thoughts are not my thoughts - THANK GOD for that!!!!

So I leave you with one question - What is the source of your confidence?

Proverbs 25:19 Like a bad tooth and an unsteady foot Is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.