Facing Insecurities
How many of us this week have felt sometimes like we had no voice? We felt like our opinion did not matter and no one really cared about how we felt. This feeling breeds insecurity. When we were younger, we may have run away and hid somewhere. As adults, how do we handle this? Many of us lash out. When we feel as if we are losing control, our insecurity creeps up from the quiet and lashes out on many unsuspecting victims.
There are 3 main sources of insecurity which are the fear of rejection, comparison, and chronic criticism. When we feel as if we cannot measure up, we take a nose dive into an empty pool of chaos. We begin to lose control of our words and hearts. Like a jumbo 747 wavering frantically in the sky, we forget to notify the control tower and desperately try to self-correct. The answer may simply be a need to call in a "mayday" before we have a dangerous crash landing.
We don't like needing help. We try to have high standards for ourselves but many of us could win an Olympic gold medal in masking our insecurities behind a self-created image of confidence. We are definitely not gods. We are not perfect by any means, but the Psalms reminds us when we are down that "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor." Psalm 8:3-5
We were created to be "a little lower than God"? Wow! What a calling. When we think of our position of royalty in the true scheme of life, it may not be such a big deal that a decision was made at work or home without our consultation. Who cares? We need to change our thinking into "kingdom thinking" and remember what we are truly here to do and to be.
I look down at my arms as I type and I see tons of flaws. I am a very flawed person, but do I embrace my uniqueness or cringe at my Creator's design. I have to say I cringe. God loves me the way I am. I need to trust that my Creator made me just the way he wanted to. I cannot compare my pattern or my form to anyone else because I was made in the image that God designed.
May we concentrate this week on what our flawed design is meant to be and what we are meant to do. May we not lose our place in life by flailing around struggling for position. May we be meek like Christ who encouraged us to accept ourselves just like we are and to use our uniqueness for good instead of pushing us into the dark. God loves you. He wants you to crawl out from under the bed and face your insecurities in the mirror of life.
My response to Saddleback's message this week on Facing Insecurities
There are 3 main sources of insecurity which are the fear of rejection, comparison, and chronic criticism. When we feel as if we cannot measure up, we take a nose dive into an empty pool of chaos. We begin to lose control of our words and hearts. Like a jumbo 747 wavering frantically in the sky, we forget to notify the control tower and desperately try to self-correct. The answer may simply be a need to call in a "mayday" before we have a dangerous crash landing.
We don't like needing help. We try to have high standards for ourselves but many of us could win an Olympic gold medal in masking our insecurities behind a self-created image of confidence. We are definitely not gods. We are not perfect by any means, but the Psalms reminds us when we are down that "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor." Psalm 8:3-5
We were created to be "a little lower than God"? Wow! What a calling. When we think of our position of royalty in the true scheme of life, it may not be such a big deal that a decision was made at work or home without our consultation. Who cares? We need to change our thinking into "kingdom thinking" and remember what we are truly here to do and to be.
I look down at my arms as I type and I see tons of flaws. I am a very flawed person, but do I embrace my uniqueness or cringe at my Creator's design. I have to say I cringe. God loves me the way I am. I need to trust that my Creator made me just the way he wanted to. I cannot compare my pattern or my form to anyone else because I was made in the image that God designed.
May we concentrate this week on what our flawed design is meant to be and what we are meant to do. May we not lose our place in life by flailing around struggling for position. May we be meek like Christ who encouraged us to accept ourselves just like we are and to use our uniqueness for good instead of pushing us into the dark. God loves you. He wants you to crawl out from under the bed and face your insecurities in the mirror of life.
My response to Saddleback's message this week on Facing Insecurities
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