Lacey J Writes Her Book

confidence |ˈkänfədəns; -fəˌdens|
noun
the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust

This one word is a battle like I have never experienced. And I have experienced many hard battles in my life. Yet it is not one of intense pain, sorrow, or suffering, but a different kind of battle. Like the definition says, it basically all comes down to firm trust.

I presently feel the Lord answering a prayer in my life I have prayed for many years, yet I actually do not know why I would pray for this. Knowing certain things about our future does not mean peace and rest. IT DOES NOT. Just because we may know a specific outcome does not make the situation any easier. I in fact think that it makes it harder. I think this is because then we lose faith and trust that God is going to give to us what he has promised when the situation can take an unexpected turn. I find myself looking at this circumstance in my life to be almost completely improbable of the outcome God has told me. But all I keep thinking is the all to well-known verse, “what is impossible for man is possible for God”. I know this and I really do believe it, as I tell myself. But the reality is that I only believe it sometimes, when it is easy to believe. The problem with scripture that has become so familiar to people is that it becomes overlooked. We have heard it a million times over and completely lose sight and knowledge of the beauty in what Jesus is telling his followers. I hate that this is what happens, but it does.

How literally “awesome” is it to know that what man cannot do, God can? There is so much depth to this I cannot comprehend.