no.48 130617 Thank you for giving me confidence

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What would be the word your friends or family use to describe you? I've shared this before in my life group, then I chose 'considerate.' After, I thought about it for a while and I felt like I lied to them because I thought about all those times when I was inconsiderate. I need to think harder about it or ask people around me and see what I get as an answer.

I don't think this will be 'THE word' that people will choose to describe me, but I have heard this word from a lot of people who know me well and are close to me. When I heard it for the very first time from a friend of mine, I questioned her with my eyes wide open. The reason I was shocked was because I thought that was an area that I could use a little improvement on. I was surprised to hear her use that word to describe me. It was hard to match to who I am.

The word is 'confident'. If I only heard it from one person, I probably would've thought that my friend is just saying it to encourage me. Well, I've actually heard from several people. The first person who told me that I was confident is the kind of a friend who was always honest and always deep in thought, so I know she won't say something shallow or something she didn't mean. Also, we've been friends since we were in high school, so we've known each other for a pretty long time. Anyways, I asked her what triggered her to think that I was confident. She told me it was a long time ago back when we were in high school, however, she couldn't recall the specific event. We had this talk about three years ago. I think that was the first time anyone ever told me that I was confident. I was confused, but it also made me feel good and it definitely was a word of encouragement to what I was going through that time.

I am thankful for the confidence that God gave me. I wanted to write about this topic because it popped up in my head when I was praying about a few things in my near future. I really need confidence not just in myself but mostly in God in order to carry out a couple of things in my life. Well, not just a couple of things, but everything in my life to be more precise. I want to share one of my favourite verses in the Bible. It comes from the book of Philippians, which is my most read book of the Bible. "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13).