Confidence is a tricky thing. We can act confident, but even a good act is still an act. You cannot ‘fake it until you make it.’ If you pump yourself up with positive thinking and self-talk, you, like a balloon, are only a negative pin prick away from deflation. When it comes to confidence, you either have it, or you don’t.
“When the day of Pentecost came… Peter... addressed the crowd: ‘Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently... God raised this Jesus to life...’” (Acts 2.1a, 14a, 29a, 32a).
