{"id":4441,"date":"2026-01-18T23:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:30:04","slug":"confidence-knowledge-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/confidence-knowledge-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence = knowledge = relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em class=\"add\">As for<\/em>\u00a0God, his way\u00a0<em class=\"add\">is<\/em>\u00a0perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he\u00a0<em class=\"add\">is<\/em>\u00a0a buckler to all those that trust in him.<\/p>\n<cite>Proverbs 18:30<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confidence = knowledge = relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowledge isn&#8217;t about the amount of information in your head. Instead, it&#8217;s about the level of intimacy that you have with that information&#8230;your relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a fake shortcut is to simply focus on the depth of your relationship with what you know, rather than on the breadth of what you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This applies to anything you&#8217;ll find in Creation: music, writing, sports, architecture&#8230;and there are many examples of people whose intimacy aka relationship with what they did was the secret to their success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the real shortcut is to focus on the depth of the intimacy you have with God, the Creator of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intimacy with God is the ultimate confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for\u00a0God, his way\u00a0is\u00a0perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he\u00a0is\u00a0a buckler to all those that trust in him. Proverbs 18:30 Confidence = knowledge = relationship. Knowledge isn&#8217;t about the amount of information in your head. Instead, it&#8217;s about the level of intimacy that you have with that information&#8230;your relationship. So a fake shortcut &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/confidence-knowledge-relationship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confidence = knowledge = relationship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6317,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/6317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}