Confidence before God

[Not me]

2 Corinthians 3:4 (NASB)
Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. 

1 Timothy 3:13 (NASB)
For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

“Confidence toward God~~confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus”

This is what we are told those having “served well” received.  They, having gone through their faith in God, being exercised, stretched, and enlarged. They received a confidence toward God that can withstand all what the world, self, and the devil would throw at it. This is this confidence that is growing in every heart of every believer that would desire to be all His. 

This confidence toward God, the only possibility of it growing, is to be dealt with, and have dealings with God personally. It is the only way for the growth of this confidence toward God to happen. 

This growing can be, and will be a cause of great pain, trepidation, doubt and all things that can, could, and would, upset self and cause self, to be willing to look away from itself to God. But it is this looking away from self to God, that is the root of this confidence toward God. Is the very root itself.

This confidence toward God, is the fruit of the heart having gone through this painfull searching and pulling and dying to it’s own will before God. For it is the believer that is willing to pay this price, that will learn the voice of God in their inmost being. For this believer will than have learned, and will continuly be learning, in a ever deepening reality,  the truth, of the all-ness of God, and the nothingness of itself. Their adequacy will be in God, and not in themselves. To the end that their eyes will stay on Christ, regardless of any outward stimulus. (Which itself is such a cause of great rejoicing in the believers heart.)

2 Corinthians 3:5 (NASB)
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as [coming] from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

Not that we are adequate in ourselves~~~~but our adequacy is from God.

This is the doorway to this great and awesome confidence toward God. Knowing in Whom, and what, this confidence is in. Not in the strength or knowledge of oneself.   But in knowing their nothingness and the All of the God they have learned and are learning to put their trust and confidence in.  It is this God who is their strength and hope and trust. Nothing of, or, out from themselves. They see that they have been crucified to this world, and the world has been crucified to them. They see the total inadequacy of all their own doings, and attemptings of doing  righteousness in their own strength in anything. So their eyes are forced to be, and stay on Christ, in all things, times and occasions. This is the faith in Christ, that brings this confidence of,  and in God. 

1 John 3:21 (NASB)
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Having and keeping a clean and pure heart before God, causes one to not doubt, or be self-condemned, (which in turn causes their eyes to be on themselves, and not on God). For a heart that knows nothing against itself, is a heart that is not perfect, but a heart that is walking in all the light that it sees. It is living up to the standard to which it has obtained at this present moment of time.  Being obedient to as much light as the heart sees within it, brings this confidence, for His burden is light. For we are only accountable to live up to the standard to which we have obtained. This inward peace of the heart, that we are in His will, and are doing those things that are pleasing to Him. To have a clean conscience before God, to have no known sins, outstanding before God. For known sin and known disobedience, is that that causes the heart to doubt God, and His love for it.  When one chooses to be dead to the world and all things in it, this confidence can not help but grow. They have the witness of the Spirit of Christ testifying in them, that they are before God, and are pleasing to Him. 

Such confidence the heart has before God who’s senses have been exercised in knowing right from wrong, truth from falsehood. 

Confidence before God is that which God would have in all His children, so they can boldly come before Him and not shrink back. This heart that is full of confidence before Him is a heart that is light and worry free, it is this heart that is free to rejoice before Him. For it is this heart that has appropriated the love of God to itself, and that causes the heart of God to rejoice. It is in this heart, His heart rejoices in, that heart that has learned to trust in His love for it. So that the believer can come before Him as His child, with a heart full of faith and hope in His great love and mercy toward it. This heart that is practiced in this coming before Him, is the heart that will see and know God. 

Great confidence before God is that which every heart is called to and for...For perfect love casts out all fear, and God would have our hearts before Him in this perfect peace and love.

Blessings,

Much love in Christ, Not me 

Edited March 14, 2019 by Not me