Confidence

A meditation over Book I of the Psalms (Psalms 1–41) #PoetryMonth

Confidence is something people admire, seek to imitate, misdirect, and even fake. Confidence is the feeling that you can have faith in or rely upon someone or something. King David was confident in the Lord. His first 41 Psalms are said to be largely about such confidence in facing spiritual foes, the wicked, and distress caused by sickness, death, sin.¹

Confident in the gospel whole
For my person and my nation
Confident with my questions
And when I am at church

Confident in his strength not mine
And in his mercy great

Confident because of this I say:
Creation and Sin could not prevent
The mighty Christ’s Advent
Entry Triumph like a Lamb
Dead before the World began
Risen conquering over Death
To Ascend the High Pontiffs
And Send his Spirit like a Dove
And rescue his suffering Church in Love

Photo taken by Brian James Mann in November 2021, and color edited.

1. Robert Godfrey’s book called Learning to Love the Psalms explains this theme from which I glean.