Proverbs 3:26 states that “the LORD shall be thy confidence”. Confidence is a trusting or reliance. An assurance of mind or firm belief in the stability of another or the reality of a fact. The Christian’s confidence is unshakable. I Corinthians 3:11, “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” This is why the wise man built his house upon the Rock and that Rock was Christ. Confidence brings peace and stability. If your security is based on something that can be taken away from you, you will constantly be on a false edge of security. Confidence produces action. Zwingli (1484-1531) wrote “Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent or careless, but on the contrary, it awakens us and urges us on.” Christians are confident people. Oswald Chambers wrote “Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance, in the spiritual world it is God-reliance.”
Proverbs 25:19, “Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.” The verse needs no explanation. Psalm 118:8, “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” The Christian’s confidence is in God and His Word.
My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus Blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus name.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.
We who believe the Bible know that the Scripture cannot be broken. John 10:35. We know that it is impossible for God to lie. Romans 3:4, “…yea, let God be true, but every man a liar;” Paul tells us in II Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” He was cheerful in his present state, being assured of future happiness. What are you really confident in? What do you know for sure?
I John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
The Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:12, “… I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” That’s confidence! A verse that speaks of Abraham’s faith is Romans 4:21, “And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
THAT’S CONFIDENCE!