Drawing Near With Confidence

I haven't had good confidence for a number of years. Not since I was a teenager. Mostly due to the failures, continuous and devastating. I have been down a number of nasty, degrading, sad and lonely roads.GOD knows this. GOD knows that with out Him we will not be able to live up to the dreams that He has for us.

This is why GOD invites us to His throne. Invites! He invites us to lay down our worries and cares, to accept His son and to let Him take care of us. GOD wants to do this for us.

When we can lay everything down and bare our true selves to Him, He builds us up and instills His confidence into us. With which we can live the dreams He has for us.

Jeremiah 17:7 (NIV)

“But blessed is the one who trusts in theLord,

    whose confidence is in him.

The hardest part for me is giving up my dreams. This is my life and I want to live it my way. It took many years to realize that I don't have the strength to live my dreams. But when I gave my life to Christ, He reinvigorated my dreams and added to them. Making them better than I could have imagined.

Now I know that GOD has better plans. It gets easier and easier to go with the flow. Even the setbacks are blessings and lessons if you ask Christ for His help. In giving it all to GOD we learn that we can approach His throne with confidence and receive grace and mercy. And everything we NEED!

How grand is that?