You would think that with how fast things are changing in our society that confidence would be at an all time high. But the exact opposite is true. Social media has brought a new avenue into which we have the capability to not only measure our self worth with that of our neighbor but literally now we have the whole world to compare ourselves to.
Something that I try to get my kids I teach to understand is to try and cop the attitude of “who cares”. I don’t mean in a rebellious sense but in a God made me, me…who cares if she has whatever. Who cares if he is whatever. Here’s where we come to the confidence issue.
We have to take everything we are to the cross. Before I was saved I had extremely low confidence. Self esteem wasn’t even in my vocabulary! I hid behind every trend that came through my life. I didn’t want to be me. Not because I didn’t like me, but I didn’t know me. Sound weird? When you have no clear God calling, who are you? Where are you going? Why are you here? Exactly who are you? Are you who GQ says? Elle? Cosmopolitan? Who is it that God made you?
Once you find out who you are in Christ you get that who cares attitude. You stop being moved by every whim, every new thing that every so-and-so is doing, being and saying. You finally reach a pinnacle of I am who I am because the Great I AM made me who I am because He needed me, to be me.
Confidence is the belief in oneself and one’s powers or abilities. Now take that, amplify it at the foot of the cross by calling on the Maker of all good things, and that includes…YOU!!!