Confidence and Commitment

A Muddy Bootprint for May 13, 2025

“No man rejects the principles of Christianity because his reason runs counter to them, but because his lusts control his reason and corrupt his judgment.” ~Jonathan Dickinson, 1732

Trusting God is a matter of confidence and commitment.

Confidence and commitment go together. They don’t work well separately. I try the people and things I trust. If I don’t trust them, I don’t try them. I don’t commit to God when I don’t place my confidence in Who He says He is or what He can do. It’s impossible to truly trust someone I never truly try.

Confidence must be more than just a word in my ‘Christian-ese’ vocabulary. It cannot be something I simply talk about or tell myself. It must be something I do. Confidence in God answers with action, not just words: it’s an attitude that acts.

Confidence is committing what I care about to God. It’s the courage to let Him handle the results. Commitment is letting God write the record of my days. Trust is a transfer of responsibility for the results. Commitment is rolling my responsibility for results onto God: it’s casting my cares onto Him.

Faith, then, is falling into God’s arms. It’s expecting Him to not let me fall apart or fall through His arms.

Confidence and commitment are tattletales on my character: they tell everyone who I am and who I trust. I have reason to be afraid when either is misplaced.

Attack Point: Let God write the record of your life!

Orienting Your Map:

[Key Verses: Psalm 31:14-15, 37:5, 143:8; Hebrews 10:35-36; Also: Genesis 15:6; Joshua 1:9; Judges 6:36-40; 2 Kings 18:5; 1 Chronicles 5:20; Job 6:14-23; Psalm 22:5, 9, 25:2, 26:1, 28:7, 32:10, 33:21, 37:3, 40:4, 52:8, 56:4, 78:21-33, 86:2, 91:2, 112:8, 115:11, 119:42, 125:1, 146:3; Proverbs 3:5-6, 16:3, 20, 28:25, 29:25; Isaiah 26:3-4; Jeremiah 7:3-4, 8, 17:5-10, 39:18, 49:11; Zephaniah 3:1-2; Matthew 6:7, 25-34, 11:28-30, 12:36; Mark 5:35-36; John 14:1; Romans 15:13; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Philippians 1:6, 4:19; 2 Timothy 2:16; Hebrews 11:1, 6, 8; James 1:22-25; 1 Peter 5:7]

That is all.

Carry On. 😉