About the Path

Welcome to the Confidence in God website. I am so glad you are visiting and are interested in learning more about it.

My name is Julie McGhghy and I have walked a long and sinuous path to get to this time and place where I can invite you into my world and comfortably sit down and share life and faith with you!

Here and Now

I currently work alongside my husband Mike assisting missionaries for our church organization in Costa Rica. I love it here. The country and its people are beautiful. I have been blessed with many new friends and opportunities to share God’s word and His love. I have waited a lot of years to be able to devote myself to fulltime ministry and am very thankful for this opportunity. I teach, preach, write, cook, clean, babysit, whatever is needed by the missionaries, pastors, churches, and people in Costa Rica. And I love it!

Backstory

In 2019 I walked away from my lengthy career as an attorney in order to devote my life to ministry. For many years I worked full time in various roles in the insurance industry, capping it all off as an attorney and privacy officer for a global property and casualty insurance company. Throughout my career I balanced work, raising three children, and ministering through teaching and some preaching in my local church. After my children were all grown, educated, and married, God provided this opportunity to serve in Costa Rica. And I am confident in His faithfulness, His guidance, His love, and His promises.

It’s not all work and no play. Mike and I love being outdoors hiking, riding bicycles and motorcycles, and traveling. And whenever possible, we do these things with our family.

The Path and Transformation

I have been walking with the Lord since I was a child, but not necessarily consistently and not because I was raised in church. I had a grandmother who loved the Lord and would take me to church whenever possible. During my teenage years my family had moved some 30 miles away from Grandma’s home and church. She was so committed to making sure I could be at church whenever I wanted to be, she drove the 30 miles each way on Saturday to pick me up and again on Sunday to take me back home.

After I graduated from high school, I lost my way a bit. But I am so thankful that God never let go of me. Even though I made some bad decisions along the way, when I was ready to return to Him, He was there to welcome me back.

I have now been teaching and ministering in different capacities for over 30 years. Through many of these years I struggled with Impostor Syndrome—the idea that you’ve only succeeded due to luck, and not because of your talent or qualifications (https://time.com/5312483/how-to-deal-with-impostor-syndrome/, last accessed April 10, 2020)—causing me to lack confidence in the promises of God. Oh, yes, I knew His promises to be true. And I had faith that God was all He said He was and would do all He said He would do. But I wasn’t confident He would do these things through me. Yet the longer I walked with Him, the more I have learned about His faithfulness, about His desire for each of us to complete our walk with Him until the day of His return, and that I can relax in Him because He will keep me with Him. Now my heart’s passion is to share with others what I have learned in order to walk with confidence in God.

My Hopes for You

I started this website because I have one primary passion in life, and that is to love the Lord with all my heart, soul, and mind, and to love my neighbor as myself. I do both by sharing His love and His word with others. As I blog, I will draw on my own experiences, observations, and study, all the while being real and authentic.

When you read my blog posts and other content, I hope you will reflect on it and pray about whether any part of it applies to your life. If it does, I hope you will strive to put the suggested actions into practice. Also, I encourage you to be like the Bereans that the Apostle Paul commended in Acts 17:11. They “received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about my content or work. In fact, I love to study the Word, so I welcome you to share with me any biblical topic you would like information about. Although I am not a Bible scholar, if it is a topic that impacts how we relate to God, I would enjoy doing the research and sharing with you what I find.

Above all, I hope you will trust in the Lord with all your heart and acknowledge Him in all your ways so that He will direct your path. Then you will be able to be confident that He which has begun a good work in you will be faithful to complete it (Philippians 1:6)!