What are you confident in?  Do you have a particular talent or ability that you know you can rely upon.  Perhaps you have been blessed with good looks or a particularly sharp brain.  Maybe you always have a joke at the ready and you use that gift to diffuse tense situations.  Maybe you have been blessed with financial resources that give you a level of confidence.  Whatever you may have confidence in it feels good to be confident.  Paul had an uncanny confidence in God from seeing Him at work time and again.  His confidence in this prayer is that God will continue the work He has started in each and every one of our lives.  Let’s look at the prayer once again today.

3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 7 It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me. 8 God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. 9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.

God finishes what He started.  Paul has utmost confidence in this truth and so should we.  Our inheritance waits for us in glory with God.  It is something that we can trust with all confidence.  God’s work in our lives is not a one-time thing.  He continues to work in our lives each and every day.  He has plans for us and wants to use us to share His love and His message.  If there is one thing we can have total confidence in it is God.  I pray that this confidence that Paul has will rub off on us.  God is at work in your life!

In His Grip,
Pastor Dave