Confirmation establishes our hearts in faith and in grace. We are freed to grow in the Lord character‐wise‐that is to manifest fruit. We are freed to walk in Him according to what we have learned.

Hearts established in holiness are free to increase in love toward others.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints (1Thessalonians 3:12‐13).

Inner sureness frees us to receive His enrichment in our total being.

That in everything ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you (1 Corinthians 1:5, 6).

 We receive inner strength to persevere with joy.

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness (Colossians 1:10‐11).

We are equipped to live life above reproach.

… to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature … (Colossians 1:22, 23).

 Being firmly rooted in Christ makes us a thankful people.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving (Colossians 2:6‐7).

Faith is an attitude of receptivity or openness toward God. This is how we received all the elementary or first principles. Confirmation should set our hearts permanently in an attitude of receptivity to God. We best express this through thanksgiving for whatever He sends our way. Thanksgiving keeps us open and ready for the next thing. Confirmation is not intended to make us feel we have arrived. In the Christian life we go through many doors of transition. We have completed certain things, but each time a whole new world lies before us. There is much land to be possessed yet in our Christian experience. We will need all eternity to comprehend the Lord.