Many people today have been disappointed in God because he did not answer their prayer the way they wanted or expected. That is not fair. This disappointment in how God has dealt with them is built on the premise that we always know what is best for us. Many thus lower their opinion of God or even deny him altogether.
Perhaps one reason many may not have confidence in the character of God is that they never had a high enough opinion of God in the first place.
God has been talked down and reduced, modified, edited, changed, and amended until He is not the God that Isaiah saw “high and lifted up.” In fact, folks often say things like “my God would never…” whatever, but God is God.
Because God has been reduced in the minds of people, they do not have that great confidence in His character that used to be prominent with believers.
We need confidence in God because it is necessary in order to really respect Him. For example, you cannot respect anyone in whom you have no confidence. Extend that principle upward to God and you see that if you cannot respect God, you cannot worship Him.
Where there is no respect there can be no true worship. Worship rises and falls with me and you depending upon whether our idea of God is low or high;
We must walk our journey with God where everything begins – with our trust and confidence that God will always do what is right for his followers (See Romans 8:28). We must believe that the Father knows best and has the best in store for us. Anything else lowers our image of God in our hearts.
So we say with the Psalmist.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
PSALMS 57:5