As I was journaling this morning I was brought to a truth that I just had never thought about before. Being raised in a home where physical and verbal abuse were not only present, but used throughout your time at home, I developed into a mindset that made me fearful to express anything I thought God’s Spirit might be saying to me let alone anything I might think. Along with that I feared any voice in my head for mostly the voices I heard were that of condemnation/ridicule or shame. God’s Voice, over the last several years, has become something I treasure and am learning to trust. So, as I asked Jesus what He wanted me to know from Him for today, His message was that He is the Great I AM and He is never embarrassed/ashamed/intimidated to proclaim this. Because of that He didn’t want me to be intimidated to do the same about Him in any part of my day.

I was never told when I was a child that confidence was equivalent to arrogance, but I developed that belief as a truth. I could never present myself as confident even when I was away from home as an adult. If I did feel confident, I kept it to myself so I wouldn’t appear arrogant. This morning’s message from Jesus opened my eyes to the huge difference between these two categories. Christ was always confident in what He did while on earth. His Spirit within me wants me to do confident to do what He nudges. Trusting God’s Spirit and acting on it can be confidently done without ever looking like arrogance. Separating these voices/messages in my head is a gift from God I can treasure!