Where is your confidence?

(Blog entry short and to the point.)

Are you a born again Christian? If you are, where do you put your confidence?

Listen ... don't rest your confidence in man, whether it be yourself or another.

Paul put it this way: "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." (Philippians 3:2-3)

Have you ever found yourself putting another Chrisian up upon a pedestal? Don't forget ... he or she is just a human.

Have you ever thought yourself better than others? Don't forget ... you are just a human.

Christ is the only one that we should lift up in our hearts and minds.

What did Paul conclude concerning putting confidence in the flesh:

"Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith."

His conclusion: Putting confidence in the flesh is a "lose or lose" situation. He even compares it to dung!

Jeremiah did not say in vain, "Cursed is the man that makes flesh his arm (strength)."

Jesus ... He is our confidence. That is where our confidence should always rest ... period.

One Clay Soldier among many