Are you confident?

I believe there are many different ideas about confidence and what it is and what it looks like. I believe confidence is something important for every human being to have. I believe it is vital for every believer in Christ to be confident even more. Confidence in God, His grace for us, and His plan for us is important for every disciple of Christ to have.

In my New Testament class I was reading through the Gospels and discovered a great moment from the life and passion of Jesus, of His confidence in His Father. Jesus states, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit" (Luke 23:46). This is a great moment at the climax of Christ death where He puts His full faith, trust, and confidence into the plan, will, and grace of His Father. Christ is showing a confident trust in the Father's control. Just moments before this statement, Christ also says, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34). This statement by Jesus shows that He was in complete anguish and being crushed for bearing the sin and wrath of God and the separation of the Father and Son in that moment.

These two moments by Christ show us something important to remember. Even in life, when the hurricane and tempest come, even when the weight of sin and the consequences of it, even when we are being crushed in life; we can still have confidence that God is in control. Christ bore our sins, so that we would not have to. Christ was crushed and burdened beyond anything that we can bear ourselves or even imagine. But in that moment He was an example for us to still have confidence in God. Christ died so we would not have to, so that we can have the confidence in those crushing moments to still look to the grace, will, and strength of the one who bore the weight so we would not have to.

That is true confidence, and a confident spirit in God can withstand anything that life or evil throw at us.