No matter what you are facing, or what trouble you are going through, there is a heavenly Father standing on the sidelines cheering us on. Each step I take, God declares, "you can do it!!". Each struggle I traverse, He declares, "you're going to make it!".
There are reasons I have this sense, not truly of self-confidence, but of God confidence. An interesting tale emerges in the Scriptures in Matthew 21:33 "Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country." While this may not seem to be an inspiring story to you, it should be.
It takes years of pruning, grafting and care to develop a vineyard into one that successfully is producing a product that can be consumed. Yet at the very time that the "master of the house" planted the vineyard he also built the winepress. What faith and confidence in those that were going to be tending his investment! The master foresaw the workers success and prepared for it long before their success was realized. He simply knew that they were going to succeed at their given task.The trials of Job add to this understanding of God's confidence in His children. Consider that it was God that suggested Job to Satan, and not vice versa. Often we think that Satan chose Job for these trials, and yet the Word of God records the words of Jehovah, "have you considered My servant Job?". It is amazing that God was so certain of Job's resilience that he joyfully sent these tribulations into this man's life.
God was certain that Job was going to make it!
Whatever you are facing today, know this, God is certain that you are going to make it!
When no one else believes in you, know this one thing ~ God believes in you!!
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