“What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?” 2 Kgs. 18:19
This question was posed by the powerful leader of the Assyrian army to Hezekiah, king of God’s feeble flock. Rabshakeh’s first and biggest mistake was thinking God’s elect was trusting in a “What,” rather than a “Who”. The world and carnal Christians put their confidence in things, whereas the Spiritual man or woman places his or hers in God alone.
If the enemy of our souls can shake our confidence in God, he needs no other tool in defeating us. He does this with subtlety by getting us to put our confidence in God’s attributes, rather than the Almighty Himself. Let me illustrate my point. Job did not put his confidence in the goodness of God; for everything happening to him was in stark contradiction to God’s goodness. His confidence was in God Himself, in spite of what He might do. It is this kind of confidence that can cry out in the darkest hour, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.”
Those who have a firm, unbreakable confidence in God are the ones to whom God is a living reality in their lives. Everything and everyone else are in the shadows. They are easily recognized. Oswald Chambers describes them thus: They “bank their faith in God, do the duty that lies nearest and damn the consequences.”
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