Speaking the things of God

As I prayed before I recently preached at college, I asked God to stop me from saying "anything dodgy". In one way, that's a perfectly fine thing to request, but it also betrayed my lack of confidence and undermined that of my listeners'. A fellow student later reminded me that my confidence shouldn't be based on my (lack of) ability in translating the Greek, or identifying the 'big idea' of the passage or working out appropriate application. My confidence should ever be in the Holy Spirit who is with me each step of the painful process. With him at my side I may be bold.


H/T Matt