“God-Confidence”

“God-Confidence”

 

Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise You!  I will praise You as long as I live, lifting up my hands to You in prayer.  You satisfy me more than the richest feast.  I will praise You with songs of joy.  Psalm 63:3-5

 

Oh me, how I LOVE this Psalm.  Some people believe that anything in the OLD TESTAMENT, is NOT applicable for the TRUE BELIEVERS today.  However, I strongly disagree with that mindset.  

The TRUE BELIEVER of today, can gain a lot of KNOWLEDGE and the RIGHT PERSPECTIVE about the HOLY GOD and His PLANS, PROMISES and PURPOSES that are directed towards mankind.  

 

Let’s look at King David and his situation.  He was in hiding (so to speak) in the Wilderness of Judah.  His son, Absalom’s rebellious attitude towards his father, caused an up-rising within the kingdom, a USURPING of the throne of David.  And David had to FLEE in order to save his life.

 

David was without the necessities of life.  He had NO WATER, and you know he developed a thirst.  Well, David began to think about what he really thirsted for was NOT water but for GOD.  He had been SATISFIED when he was in the Tabernacle, gazing upon the LORD GOD’S GLORY.  And while he was in the WILDERNESS, he LONGED for God’s Glory.  So, even in the WILDERNESS, David offered PRAISES to the LORD GOD, ALMIGHTY.  

 

Sometimes, when we are in the WILDERNESS of LIFE’S JOURNEY, facing difficulties and situations that seem OVERWHELMING we NEED to get alone with God, in a quiet place, just you and God, and pour out your PRAISES, first of all, to HIM, then offer up your petitions of prayer. And TRUST HIM to do what is BEST for YOU.  After all, you are HIS CHILD, aren’t you?

 

Notice in our verses, that David had a GENUINE GOD-CONFIDENCE.  He is saying to God: “Your UNFAILING LOVE is BETTER than LIFE itself.”  Whenever you, like David, REALIZE that the FAITHFULNESS of GOD is MORE IMPORTANT than ANYTHING ELSE in this LIFE. When you REALIZE this, YOU too WILL PRAISE GOD with JOY UNSPEAKABLE.  And you will have, like King David, GOD-CONFIDENCE that will SUSTAIN you through YOUR WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES.

 

David was SO CONFIDENT in God’s FAITHFULNESS to him, that he PROMISED to PRAISE GOD as LONG as he LIVED, and with the LIFTING of his HANDS, he prayed to his HEAVENLY FATHER, showing his CONFIDENCE in GOD’S FAITHFULNESS, David says; “You, SATISFY me more than the RICHEST FEAST.  I WILL PRAISE YOU with SONGS of JOY.”   

 

How about YOU? Do YOU have GOD-CONFIDENCE?  Can you say that GOD means MORE to YOU than LIFE ITSELF?  If you have NOT GIVEN your HEART and LIFE to GOD, through His ONLY SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, who SHED HIS BLOOD in order to SAVE your SINFUL SOUL from an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there.  You can have an ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS, if you will:  First, ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST.  You MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS DIED for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for YOU, before GOD.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ASK Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINS and TURN TO GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.

You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and have GOD-CONFIDENCE and PRAISE HIM for His UNFAILING LOVE and FAITHFULNESS to YOU!!!  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!