Short story: Building self-confidence depends on your connecting yourself to God

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John Spruiker was having a chat with his pastor about self-confidence. John had never been a particularly confident person, and his counsellor had told him that he had little self-belief, or faith, in himself. Work on building these facets to yourself, he had told him. John decided to get a second opinion on what he should really do to overcome his lack of self-confidence. The pastor told him: “True self-confidence requires belief in God, not just self-belief, or belief, in self.” “The really confident person is never overzealous in self-pride, but remains, at all times, humble.” “The person is never aggressive, or abrasive, in their confidence, but remains always courageously humble.” “It is faith, and trust, in God that builds this type of self-confidence in you.” “Now, God is love, and we can connect self-confidence back to love too.” “Confidence is the amount of love in you that you are living from, and when you do not live fully from love, you can never feel confident then either.” “The greatness of love is never little-ised by yourself if you place that love within God. Trying to place it only in yourself minimises it entirely, as you are nothing within yourself, but everything within God.” “Be God in you, and allow love to be God in you.” “You can never be self-confident for real, without your connecting yourself to love, as God’s confidence in you then lives in you too.” Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com John's pastor gave him some good advice. Stay close to God, and confidence will stay close in you then too.