You Can Get There From Here

        Confident in God

Isaiah 50:7  (New International Version)

Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced.  Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.

This promise has the word “CONFIDENCE” written all over it. The first few words indicates that we can have a relationship with the Lord.  We can get to know God’s character by having experiences with Him.  As we partner with God and spend time with Him, we’ll get to know Him personally.

Then comes the promise:  “I will NOT be disgraced.”  Two meanings for the word disgraced are “humiliated” and “shamed.”  Without God in our lives these words can easily become part of our vocabulary and our experience.  But with God we can have the confidence that as we trust Him, He will keep us from being humiliated and disgraced.

It is then that we can set our faces like flint.  In other wards we can depend on God and not be moved off of our trust in Him.  When we lean totally over on Him and His ways, He will keep us from shame.

GPS  (God’s Directions)

• Exodus 14:13
• II Samuel 22:34
• Psalms 9:10

Prayer Focus: 

Spend some time making a list of those areas of your life that you need to turn over to God.  In your own words, release each one to God.  You may have to release them daily—until you have full confidence that they are in God’s hands.