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For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.

—Prov 3:26

For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.

—Ps 71:5

• Many people struggle with a lack of confidence. And maybe with good cause. We know our limitations and our true selves better than anyone, and what we know may not cause us to overflow with confidence. It is only by God’s grace that we have made it this far in life without making a greater mess of things.

• It is tempting to place our confidence in all kinds of things—money, abilities, job, another person, or ourselves. But each of these can fail us or be taken away. Then what?

• Praise God, who cannot fail nor be taken from us. This truth, coupled with God’s commitment to us, gives us daily confidence regardless of our circumstances.

• The Apostle Paul lived with confidence in God. He said, “I can do everything through him who gives me strength” (Phil 4:13) and “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31b).