Answer: Perfectly.
At first glance, one could develop personal confidence in self to soon evolve into an ego trek of being self-assured, self-directed, and self-provided. Self-confidence has an initial sound of health and stability. Yet, it isn't because eventually the self reaches the end of its ultimately weak rope.
Enter humility.
Humility is the game-changer. Humility leads, in a way, from the back of the human concentration pack. The secret to it is its remarkable answer to the "confidence" question. Humility is not a quiet self-confidence; but rather it is a steadfast visionary confidence in Jesus. Our assurance of strength, supply, and accuracy of life is based upon the ever-funding work of the Spirit of Christ; not of our calculating, always refiguring selves.
We find ourselves to be faced with one unreachable hurdle after another. Personally, we are sunk...when on our own. But....but we are not on our own. We are on His own. Jesus isn't just the theme of songs nor the topic of Bible studies. Jesus is the New Life residing within....within us! Jesus has knocked on our doors and asked if he could rent out our spaces.
We....say yes! Enter in! Soon!
Life pops when confidence--a new kind of assurance--is based upon Jesus rather than our own talents or good breaks or wishful thinking. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; so he says. We are not; so we eventually discover. We need him to get all of this done for us. Confidence, when based upon Jesus and not the self, is the perfect partner to humility as the two walk down the corridors hand in hand.
Yay Him....and, therefore yay for us! Confidence and humility co-exist when the directives of God are established. And...we like it!
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