"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10 ESV
Webster's dictionary defines insecurity as: not confident, not adequately guarded or sustained, not firmly fastened or fixed. To me this definition reveals a great deal about this feeling. What do people do when they lack confidence? They don't trust anyone. What if they are unsure, uncertain, or doubtful? They are cautious and they don't let anyone in. What happens if they feel unprotected? They will most certainly attack.
The prison of insecurity is where we allow the walls to grow up around us. It isolates us from any possibility of healthy relationships, believing the lie the enemy tells us that we are all alone. These invisible bars are made from a great many things: past failure, addiction, abuse of all kinds, fear, and pride. On the outside you make look totally normal. You will try and act the part, smiling and trying to fit in but on the inside you are eaten up with worry which makes you timid and frightened that any moment someone might find out what is on the inside of the walls you've built.
Plainly put, insecurity is bondage. Simply put, it is slavery.Bondage happens when a thought or action limits our freedom and someone struggling with this slavery to insecurity often will display a pattern that is easy to read once you learn it. They will express no sense of identity which makes them believe the lies others tell them, leading them to an unrealistic fear of what other people will think about them.
If we let it, insecurity will ruin the most sacred relationships in our lives. It will keep us from loving freely and from accomplishing the dreams that we might have for ourselves. But most importantly it will keep us from realizing the dream that God has for us and from living the life He intends for us. A life of freedom. Jesus tells us that He has come that we may have life and have it abundantly. But living in insecurity is not the life He chose for me or for you. Jesus did not bleed and suffer the most horrific of beatings so that I would be held back by the fear and lies of the enemy. Jesus did not die on the cross so that you or I would be kept from realizing our full potential.
Has God called you to do something you are afraid of trying? If you allow insecurity to have rule over your life then you might miss out on what God is asking you to do. You and I do not have to live in the prison of insecurity. In Ephesians, Paul tells us that if we are followers of Christ then we have the same power within each of us that raised Him from the dead. If you really believe that to be true why aren't we living our lives as if that power is in us? Why are we standing silently by while gross abominations are happening around us. It starts with allowing the small things until ultimately the big things don't seem so bad.
Everyone has a place in their hearts where fear doesn't reside. It may be deep down inside the dungeon that you have placed yourself in but I promise that Jesus is waiting there to tear down all the walls you have allowed the enemy to build. Freedom is a possibility but you first have to ask for the keys to the door.
“even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:4-23 ESV
Webster's dictionary defines insecurity as: not confident, not adequately guarded or sustained, not firmly fastened or fixed. To me this definition reveals a great deal about this feeling. What do people do when they lack confidence? They don't trust anyone. What if they are unsure, uncertain, or doubtful? They are cautious and they don't let anyone in. What happens if they feel unprotected? They will most certainly attack.
The prison of insecurity is where we allow the walls to grow up around us. It isolates us from any possibility of healthy relationships, believing the lie the enemy tells us that we are all alone. These invisible bars are made from a great many things: past failure, addiction, abuse of all kinds, fear, and pride. On the outside you make look totally normal. You will try and act the part, smiling and trying to fit in but on the inside you are eaten up with worry which makes you timid and frightened that any moment someone might find out what is on the inside of the walls you've built.
Plainly put, insecurity is bondage. Simply put, it is slavery.Bondage happens when a thought or action limits our freedom and someone struggling with this slavery to insecurity often will display a pattern that is easy to read once you learn it. They will express no sense of identity which makes them believe the lies others tell them, leading them to an unrealistic fear of what other people will think about them.
If we let it, insecurity will ruin the most sacred relationships in our lives. It will keep us from loving freely and from accomplishing the dreams that we might have for ourselves. But most importantly it will keep us from realizing the dream that God has for us and from living the life He intends for us. A life of freedom. Jesus tells us that He has come that we may have life and have it abundantly. But living in insecurity is not the life He chose for me or for you. Jesus did not bleed and suffer the most horrific of beatings so that I would be held back by the fear and lies of the enemy. Jesus did not die on the cross so that you or I would be kept from realizing our full potential.
Has God called you to do something you are afraid of trying? If you allow insecurity to have rule over your life then you might miss out on what God is asking you to do. You and I do not have to live in the prison of insecurity. In Ephesians, Paul tells us that if we are followers of Christ then we have the same power within each of us that raised Him from the dead. If you really believe that to be true why aren't we living our lives as if that power is in us? Why are we standing silently by while gross abominations are happening around us. It starts with allowing the small things until ultimately the big things don't seem so bad.
Everyone has a place in their hearts where fear doesn't reside. It may be deep down inside the dungeon that you have placed yourself in but I promise that Jesus is waiting there to tear down all the walls you have allowed the enemy to build. Freedom is a possibility but you first have to ask for the keys to the door.
“even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:4-23 ESV
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