The person who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.
He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8
I’ve spent many years attempting to find self-confidence. They were years of drought that caused a withering in me. And all these years later, I am still surrounded by a world seeking something that will not bear fruit, at least for long.
Trust your gut. • Trust your instinct. • Trust yourself but no one else.
You’ve got this. • Be all you can be. • Believe in yourself.
Things we tell one another to help prop us up, keep us going, but we don’t realize what we’re building.
Self-reliance comes from self-confidence and all the other self things we keep self-helping ourselves into.
There will be no true flourishing in the land of self.
So I’ll speak truth so that we can all walk out of our self-made lies and into truth.
Flourishing comes when I have confidence in God, not in me. When I trust Him above my gut, my instincts, my own smarty pants ways, then it won’t matter the conditions I’m living in – I will flourish. I will bear fruit in dry places, because my roots will go down deep to living water. When I stop trying to be all I can be and start leaning on Him to be all He is, there will be no withering in me.
I can flourish. Not in myself, but in Him.
Think about it…
Are you flourishing in your life right now? Why or why not? What, if anything, needs to change so that you can be “like a tree planted by the water?”
Karla Jo Wasion 