As a Christian, Should I Agree with Self-Confidence?

When self-confidence is boiled down you're left with self-sufficiency, self-adoration, and a bit of boastfulness. Typically we see self-confidence worshipped in the light of insecurities.

Rather than comparing ourselves to one another, the solution is to become "self-confident". To teach yourself you're just as good as social media models you choose to obsess over.

While there is truth in knowing your worth, self-confidence puts your identity into your own looks and opinions rather than receiving identity from God.

As Christians, we should be wary of this ideal.

Along with falsely placed identity, there is another issue at stake; bandaids of compliments will not fix deeply rooted issues of insecurity.

while self-confidence makes us look deeper into ourselves, God calls us to look unto Him alone for our strength, healing, and fiery boldness.

When we choose to look unto self-confidence were no longer relying on God to provide and restore, but we're looking to ourselves.

In 2nd Corinthians 3:5, we are reminded that all who we are, and all we have obtained is NOT from our own self-sufficiency but by God

"Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,"

Confidence is indeed a beautiful thing, but self-confidence is not what will restore and sustain.

Our source of identity and boldness should come from a spiritual humbleness, starting with the realization that God alone strengthens, restores, and redeems us. We can indeed place our confidence boldly in the Lord,

A beautiful example is shown to us in Psalms 139:14, the writer stands firmly in God-glorifying confidence, directing all praise and honor to the Lord’s craftsmanship

"I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well."

Just a simple change from “I’m so pretty” to “God created me so uniquely in His perfect craftsmanship” can be the difference between a self-fulfilling heart or a humbled one.

So Christians, let’s be a little more cautious of ideals that point back to the ‘self’ & instead align ourselves with God-glorifying beliefs.