So Long Insecurities

A friend of mine gave me a book to read once I got done with reading "When God Writes Your Love Story."  She told me that she read the book and was convicted to share this book with me with everything that I have been learning in the last month or so.  Beth Moore's book "So Long Insecurities" is basically just that.  She is able to take all the insecurities that women have and explain how we can overcome them.  I know there are guys out there too that have insecurities, too.  I have talked to them.  I admit that I have insecurities a mile long and a mile wide.  Sometimes, I do dwell on them.  But, Beth mentioned in her first chapter if we don't have anyone around us to tell us how amazing, beautiful, wonderful, life-changing we are, then can we survive in this world and surpass our insecurities?  As a woman, I very much enjoy hearing things like how beautiful I am (thanks Dad!!) or what a wonderful person I am.  However, Beth says that we are not going to get that all the time and we need to learn to be able to work through that, even though we need that reassurance, it may not happen when we need it to.  So, are we going to be able to continue on with our lives if no one compliments us?  I think we can.  I do have a hard time with this as well.  I definitely need to continue to learn about how to leave the insecurities behind and continue on.  I am not going to hear everyday from my dad about how beautiful he thinks his little girl is, but I can turn to God to get that assurance.  Just because the people on Earth may say one thing, does not mean that it is true.  God holds the truth and He loves us just the way we are.  I have been learning that this last month about how much God does love me, insecurities and all.  I never want people to think that it is easy to believe that God loves us with all our flaws, because it's not easy.  But, it's relieving to know that it is true.  So, I challenge you (and myself) to let God take care of those insecurities you may have and just to let it go.  It will be hard, but in the end it will be SOOOO worth it!