Day 4 | Remembering to be Convinced

Reflection

You snap awake. Must be time to get up. You check your phone. 4:30. You’re thinking about that meeting today… and there’s no chance of drifting back off now.

Yet by the end of the day, you’re eating dinner and telling a friend or family member how ‘it went really well, actually’. God had been with you.

How often this is the case! How often we have a challenge before us, a task to accomplish, something to create: a school project, an ad campaign, a new kitchen – and God helps us do it. If we were more mindful of how God has been with us in the past, would we not have greater confidence to face the challenges that lie before us each day?

Paul and his friends went through something terrible, far beyond their own ability to endure. It was so bad, they thought they were going to die. And yet God brought them through. It was an experience Paul could look back on with thanksgiving and take forward with confidence – confidence that God would continue to be with him.

How many times has God shown His faithfulness to you? How might that help you be more confident with whatever you face today?

Responding in prayer

Mighty God, strong deliverer, the Rock in whom we trust: we praise You for the many ways You’ve been with us in the past – the ways we can recall, the ways we can’t. As we follow You onto our frontlines today, help us remember Your faithfulness.