Godly Confidence or Self-Exalted Arrogance

There is a difference between Godly bold confidence and worldly self-exalted arrogance.

Those who are Godly are bold because they care more about what God thinks and His will than they do about their own life.

Those who are worldly and arrogant care only about appearing superior and in control of others.

Those who are Godly care deeply about the well-being of others. Worldly people care only about getting their own way.

Many worldly people will accuse bold confident people of being arrogant to intimidate them into silence. Their hope is that their target will shrink back in shame over things that are not shameful.

Bold confident people speak the truth because Christ and His truth are more important than anything else. Obedience to His word that we speak the truth to the lost and to believers who are veering off the straight path is more important than being loved and accepted by those who have no interest in what Christ thinks.

Religion plays a very big role in our culture today. It is not "religion" that authentic believers love, it is Christ and His principles and His Word that we love. Our walk as believers is Spiritual and as God said, we are to worship Him in "Spirit and in truth." These are not tangibles, things the physical eye can see, but they are what the soul within us senses and cherishes.

Religion is full of meaningless ritual that fosters pride in the doing without concern about the "being." Religion makes rules and rituals God never made to elevate one's sense of personal exaltation.

When we walk in faith without human rituals we are building our own faith without the need for external activity and religious artifacts to comfort us. Being able to see something is what those with little faith strive for but cannot have faith if they cannot see.

Matthew 8:25-27 "…25 The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” 26 “You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm. 27 The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”…"

Mankind tends to place their trust in the things associated with the ritual and the ritual itself rather than in Christ.

Faith is believing in what we cannot see and trusting Whom we cannot feel. We have a Spiritual sense of the presence of Christ and it is stronger than anything we can see or touch.

2 Corinthians 5:7

"7 For we walk by faith, not by sight."