Confidence in Fear

Self-confidence fails. Our confidence in God never will.

I cannot find the way. He is my light.

For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.Psalm 18:28

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.Psalm 84:11

I cannot fix my mess. He is my salvation.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.Psalm 18:2

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.Psalm 62:1-2

I don’t have what it takes to endure. He is my strength.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.Psalm 28:7

We must actively pursue the presence of God.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.Psalm 84:10

“When you seek the Lord, it means more than just finding a safe place. It means that you order your life according to the laws of the kingdom. The psalmist beseechs God to ‘teach me your ways.’ When you seek the King, you are also seeking the kingdom and its righteousness.”

Edward Welch

Be mindful of eternal things.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.Romans 8:5-6

Be focused on the promises of God’s Word.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.Psalm 119:92-93

Be aware of God at work around you.

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?Matthew 6:26

We must take refuge in His promised protection.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.Psalm 32:6-7

We will find great peace in obedience.

True obedience comes, not from understanding or emotion, but from genuine faith.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.Hebrews 11:6

Obedience leaves the burden of deliverance completely upon God.

We find confidence in understanding who we are.

Fear desires companionship. God exceeds companionship and gives us sonship.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:John 1:12

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.1 John 3:1-3

Courage comes from daily commitment to waiting on the Lord.

We see God at work day by day. This keeps us going.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.Psalm 27:13

Immediate results don’t grow your faith, waiting does.

If God is my light, my salvation, my strength, of whom or what should I be afraid?