TOTD, August 20

Faith Is Confidence in God

Confidence and faith are virtually synonymous; sometimes they can be interchanged without losing the content of what is being said at all. Faith can be defined as confidence in God. In simple terms, faith is knowing that if God has said He will do something, He will do it. Even if it doesn't look like He is doing it right now, it will come to pass in His timing, if we will remain confident in Him. Don't loose your confidence.

And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [ we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.
And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.
--- 1 John 5:14,15

My own reflection on this Thought:
* When things are easy and everything runs smoothly, it's so easy to put our confidence in God.
But, as this life of ours is unpredictable, it's so hard to tell when the happy things would end and the problems keep coming.
The question is: would our faith stand still in times of trouble?
It's not an easy thing. Sometimes the problem is too big, so that we thought it would never have any solution.
But, our task is just believe. Keep believing in Him even the situation in our life runs on the other way around.
Keep the faith, never loose our confidence in Him. (-fon-)