Growing in confidence …

“I’m beginning to like being challenged by trials and tests, His wisdom and knowledge floods me and then His peace, I am getting stronger!!!” was the tweet I saw from a Twitter friend today.

Now THAT is a great Christian attitude that reflects spiritual maturing.

Before you attack it as unrealistic, read the New Testament (at least). You’ll see that is precisely what God wants to accomplish in our lives.

We’ve degraded to the point we find it “natural” to complain when we are the least bit inconvenienced. Griping rolls off our tongues and out our mouths faster than lightning strikes! But that’s behavior from the old nature. It is God’s intent to shape us more and more into the likeness of Christ. As that happens, we absolutely can respond to tests, trials, difficult circumstances or anything else life might throw at us with a Christ-based confidence that is free of fear and ready for the challenge because we know God has something good in store for us!

“So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord — who is the Spirit — makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image,” 2 Corinthians 3:18.

“This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ,” Ephesians 4:13.

“My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me,” Galatians 5:20.

Scotty