Day 32 | Deep Breath – Go For It!

Reflection

You only need to give the instruction to be courageous if you know either, things aren’t going to be easy, or people are in danger of being the opposite.

In this devotional, we’ve already considered five helpful contributors to faith confidence. We have thought about how confidence grows through being convinced, having a supportive community, cultivating compassion, keeping daily consistency in time with God, and developing competence.

But here’s the thing. On any given day, I might just need to take a big breath and go for it! It is so often the case that confidence grows through us stepping up and making a move. The Bible often calls these ‘gulp-go-for-it’ moments, being courageous.

Sometimes, we can’t wait for faith-confidence to come. We need to prayerfully make the first move. And as we do so, our God meets us more than halfway, and our confidence grows on the move through resolved courage. Our confidence to speak truth, lovingly, and to act in ways that represent our faith well often only grows when our faith is being used.

When Paul writes the words in the passage to the church in Corinth, he knows what he’s talking about. He’s already confessed to them earlier in the letter that he went to their city with weakness, fear, and trembling (1 Corinthians 2:3). Yet Paul overcame this weakness, fear, and trembling to go to Corinth. He had resolved courage.

Responding in Prayer

Lord, help me to have enough resolved courage to represent You well on my frontlines today.

Thank you that You meet me there and my confidence grows when I step up in Your power.