Confidence in God

Psalm 121:1-2, "I will lift up my eyes to the hills--From whence comes my help?  My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth."  (NKJV)

The Psalmist David makes a powerful declaration/confession in this passage of scripture.  David describes the safety that he finds in the Lord.  I was involved in a Discipleship class last night that found us exploring the promises of God.  The promises of God form the foundation of our individual as well as corporate confidence in God.  David had developed a "history" with God and that history allowed him to overlook all other sources of help and focus on the help that could only come from God. 

We discovered last night that each of us individuals face a daily barrage from the enemy of our soul.  Those barrages focus on the dismantling and destruction of our faith in God.  These barrages come dressed in many shapes and forms but their ultimate goal is to defeat and overthrow our faith.  Declaring our faith and confidence in God is one of the ways that we respond to these attacks from our enemy.  Here are a few of the strategies of the enemy that was expressed by the class participants last night: 1) "He makes us doubt our identity as a child of God; 2) He seeks to distract us from the larger picture and focus on certain scenarios that we rehearse over and over in our mind; 3) He seeks to make us doubt our ability to believe and trust in God; 4) He seeks to make us forget those moments of God's faithfulness; and 5) He seeks to trap us in a state of self pity concerning our circumstances."   This is just a sampling of some of the life events that we face as we seek to continue our faithful walk with God.  Each of us may have felt these negative emotions as well as other emotions as we have faced our moments of difficulty.  But we can rest assured that for every strategy of the enemy our Heavenly Father has a counter strategy that has the ability to rebuke and defeat the enemy if we are willing to look to the Lord as our Help. We can trust in the faithfulness of God and we can take confidence in the fact that God is always aware of the circumstances that we are facing.