I like the way Maria Goff puts it…insecurity is a funny thing. It indeed is a funny thing. That is the right perspective one should have. Don’t give too much importance to insecurities. It is not worth a dime.
Insecurity is founded upon certain PERCEIVED shortcomings by the individual. They could be true, they need not be too. For the individual who is insecure, everything looks threateningly real. That threat perspective leads them to believe that they are helpless and alone/lonely. This makes them paralysed, and they can’t break free, nor do anything about their insecurities. It all begins with the perception and perspective.
It pays well to remember that each of us are created uniquely by God. God places immense value on each of us. He chose even to die to redeem us. If God thinks of you as precious, why do you wish to demean Him, by thinking yourself as inferior?
Each of us are not identical clones. We are different by design. Some may be better than us. Some may not be. What difference does it make? If I am better than someone, it doesn’t make me superior to anyone. If I am not better at certain things than someone, it does make me inferior to anyone. We are all differently enabled by God.
See the difference. Accept it whole heartedly. Contribute to the benefit of other what you are good at. Learn from others what you are lacking.
Accept who you are, and as you are. Appreciate the good part. Strive hard to improve on the weaker part. That is what life is all about. Why feel insecure, and become inferior to someone else? If Someone else is better than you, appreciate it, and be humble to learn from them.
“”…we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”” – Romans 8:28, 31-32
Don’t be a fool, and let the whole world know what a fool you are. Pick up your trash, and throw it in the bin. That is where insecurities rightly belong.
Kumara Krupa Bachala
