Define confidence...

I saw this on a blog I read daily of a pastor's wife. She's a pastor herself too. I couldn't help but think, "That cat has some guts!" What would cause a cat to walk in the midst of fierce german shepherds and not pee all over itself? Confidence in it's ability to take down one of those dogs? Confindence in the fact it could possibly climb up a tree (that's if one of the dogs doesn't catch it).? Confidence in just being a complete IDIOT? What's going on in that feline's head?



Possibly what should be going on in my and every believer's head. CONFIDENCE and NO FEAR. There's nothing THAT AMAZING in me that could walk through the hardest, fiercest, most dificult situation. There really isn't. I consider myself a pretty confident person. But not THAT confident to parade around danger. And, then I see a picture and quote such as this and realize I've been called to be confident in every way. Just the fact I come from a royal lineage should give me a jolt of confidence. Just because I live by a saying, "greater is he that is in me, than he that's in the world," should motivate me to kick some butt. EVEN if I fail at it that first time.



I have a several more years to build little confident clones of my husband and I. My children. I want them to walk in a confidence that will "STEAL THE SHOW." Even if they fail....ESPECIALLY if they fail. My kids are pretty confident. I believe it's partially because of how we're raising them. But a major part of it is God's power in them. I'm marvelled at the daily "normal school sagas" my 1st and 4th grader will come home with. How they had to stand up for what was right regardless of what others said. Now that's confidence. I pray they never lose that.