Recently I was asked to give a presentation on insecurity and significance. In full disclosure, it wasn’t a topic I typically speak on. Ironically, I was feeling insecure about presenting on insecurity. Isn’t that what it means to be human? As I prepared the material, I realized how passionate I was about the topic and how often I have talked about insecurity with clients. Isn’t that also the way God works? So often, it is in obedience that we see God. We trust what God says about us despite our fears. Trust clears the smoke of insecurity away just enough for us to act. Living in freedom isn’t living without insecurity, it is living “through” it while clinging to what God’s truth is for us.
In your life, you won’t experience the total extinguishment of insecurity. That is good news, because we don’t have to wait until we feel secure to do the things God presents to us. Scripture tells us that “God’s power is made perfect in our weakness". I have found this truth very comforting to me over the years. I often remind myself of it as I prepare to do something I don’t feel prepared to do. Our work in this world (and for the Kingdom) requires only obedience. That sounds so simple and it is most certainly not. What is true though is that we are secure regardless of what it seems. Insecurity is an illusion borne from our trauma, messages from our family (and others) and Satan. Breaking through illusions is hard but I find it so helpful that the truth waits for us on the other side!
