Overcoming Insecurity
Insecurity is defined as a state or feeling of anxiety, fear, or self-doubt. These are powerful emotions that can actually originate at birth, or for that matter, before birth. Yes, before we were born. But you ask how can that be?
1. Insecurity’s Origin
Perhaps our birth mother had contemplated abortion. It could have been the result of a medical risk in the womb or just the anxiety, fear, and self-doubt of having a child. Maybe we were born premature and were dangling on the edge of life and death. There are many more reasons but for whatever reason, these emotions linger over our life like a dark, ominous cloud.
2. Spiritual Perspective of Insecurity
When we lose our position of keeping God number one, all we have to do is diligently seek Him with all our heart, all our soul, and we will find Him. This is an adjustment we should embrace with no condemnation. Life happens but we must be diligent to keep God first!
3. Conquering Insecurity
Whenever God is going to do something significant in one of His children’s life, the enemy will attempt to kill it in the first two years. You may have just started a business, perhaps you just gave birth to a child. Everything seems to be happening to contradict your plan, your dream, your vision. Insecurity is like a tsunami coming at you in all directions. This is precisely what the enemy will try to do. He’s been at it for hundreds of generations. If he cannot abort our plan, dream, or vision he will try to kill it in its infancy. If he succeeds in infancy, we will not be able to birth, grow, and flourish!
4. God Has The Final Say
Our absolute reality is, if God gave us the dream, vision, business, the child, we have to stay with the plan. God will outlast the enemy and we will also outlast him if we hold on with all we are and all we have! Although we may feel unqualified, unworthy, and unable, as insecurity attempts to put a choke hold on us, we stand firm on God’s promises and His plans for our life. If the enemy could not take us out in infancy and in the first two years, we are on our way to our promised land.
Ironically, when we arrive at our promised land, all the struggles, the warfare of the contradiction, will provide us with the fortitude to survive all the way to the end of our faith journey. To hear those words every believer yearns to hear “Well done my good and faithful servant.”
Final Thoughts
When God wants to do something, the enemy will attempt to kill it in its infant stage.
When we get to our promised land, our experience in the contradiction will gird us with strength as we face the continuous opposition of the enemy.
Do not quit when the opposition and the contradiction are on the attack, because God is with you and His strength will see you through and to your promised land!
