JOHN SHIRK – In the Year to Shine, today’s Vital Step to a Radiant Faith is to live with confidence in God.

There is a lot of emphasis in our world today on self-confidence, having the assurance that we have what it takes to get the job done and be successful. Someone who displays self-confidence may draw people to themselves, but confidence in God will draw people to Christ.

The Apostle Paul lived with confidence in God and lived as an ambassador for Christ.

In Second Corinthians 3:4, he said, “Such confidence we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.”

What Paul understood was that his strength came from God. He only had a platform to make a difference in people’s lives because of the grace of God. This kept him humble and his source of confidence focused in the right place.

Confidence in God is a Vital Step to a Radiant Faith that makes a difference in our world.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com