My confidence, in the middle of an un-confident week!!!

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I’m feeling frustrated this week.  Life seems… “heavy”. A friend shared these verses:

I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalms 27: 13,14

Working, I’ve found myself watching the clock  and thinking “I don’t want to do this anymore”. I feel guilty that I’m not giving my best with that attitude.

I feel like the ink is not flowing from my pen, either. (That’s my poor attempt to cleverly say “writer’s block!!!”) I had a complete post prepared for today. A post that required a lot of perseverance to write. And now, I’ve shelved that post and am writing something else instead. Given my personality, I’m frustrated seeing my carefully laid plans messed with!

Guess you could say that I’m not feeling confident about much of anything. Not in my ability to do my job well. Not in my ability to be a creative, inspiring writer. Not in my ability to be a good friend. But God says “remain confident”.

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Not in my ability!

I can be confident in God’s goodness. Today. Because I’m alive. And God loves me. He values me. He is in relationship with me.

So in this time of frustration, I’m experiencing God’s goodness. And He says to “wait” for Him. He says to “be strong and take heart” as I wait. Interesting thought, it requires strength to “wait”. In my weakness I want to blunder ahead. And of course make a mess of things. But if I choose to wait in God’s strength, I can take heart knowing I am experiencing His goodness. Not only in eternity. But now.

And in the meantime, I continue to do what I know to do. I will work. I will relate. I will write.

And I will be confident.

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6