The Grace of Confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord and Shepherd

The confidence we have is based on God's Word, assurance, trust, and Christ's promise.  We can trust God's Word because it is reliable and trustworthy.  We gain assurance of salvation by the Word and Spirit.  We are able to trust God because of His promises.  We should never trust God based on presumption or pride.  We have a sure grounds to trust God based upon His Word.  This world likes to bring us down and harm us repeatedly.  We conquer the world, the flesh and the devil because of His Word and Spirit.  We have the promises in Him that keep us going.  We ought to never distrust His promises but always trust them as we grow in faith, grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Confidence is the believer's source of prayer, testimony, helping others, God's will and must be held with steady confidence in Him.  We ought to grow in confidence but we ought to repent if we lack confidence in Christ to save us.  Let us rejoice and praise the Lord Jesus for His goodness and grace to us this day!  Amen.