Faith in God vs. the Confidence of Your Faith
This month has felt like a rollercoaster — but not in the negative sense. To me, a rollercoaster isn’t chaos; it’s a journey. It may shake, it may dip, it may lurch you forward without warning, but you remain seated and strapped in. And when you endure it, you come off feeling victorious.
I took some time for reflection recently, and leading up to the time, I was frustrated, tired, and honestly felt like the weight of community was against me. But I held onto the words of Esther — “If I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16). Little did I know, my body would feel like it really was perishing. LOOL
I came down with what felt like COVID symptoms — coughing fits through the night, aches, and fatigue. It is one thing to fast and feel hunger. It is another to fast, feel hunger, and wake up in coughing fits with no water to drink. Yet in those moments, gratitude overflowed. I remembered how far God has brought me and decided that even if this was it, I would still trust Him.
Faith in God
Faith in God is trusting Him when you have nothing else to hold on to.
When I was unemployed last year, baking banana bread to afford even my friend’s wedding fabric, I prayed prayers that felt like survival: “God, please don’t embarrass me. If You don’t do this for me, there is nothing else I can do.”
This is the kind of faith Hebrews 11:1 talks about:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Confidence of Faith
This year, I am walking in the confidence of my faith. I rarely ask, “Lord, will You do this?” Instead, I present every situation to Him and say, “Lord, if this is Your will, let it be so. If not, remove it.”
Philippians 1:6 gives me courage:
“Being confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
This confidence is not arrogance — it’s resting in the assurance that God is good, God is faithful, and God is already at work in the seen and unseen.
Devotional Reflection
• What areas of your life are you trusting God just to “get through”?
• Where might He be inviting you to move from survival-mode faith into confident, surrendered faith?
• Can you thank Him in advance for the outcome — even before you see it?
Scriptures for Meditation
• Hebrews 10:35-36 – “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
• Romans 8:28 – “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.”
• Psalm 27:13-14 – “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”
