Overcoming Insecurity : Part 1

Overcoming Insecurity 

Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt like you weren’t enough - too quiet, too loud, you look different, or you feel like you aren’t good enough? Insecurity is something that we wrestle with. However, the Bible reveals that we were never meant to measure our worth by comparison to the world.

Even some of the greatest people in scripture wrestled with insecurity. In Exodus chapters 3-4, God appears to Moses in the burning bush and calls Moses to lead the Egyptians out of Egypt. The scriptures say in Exodus 3:11, “But Moses protested to God, ‘Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?” This was the first question that Moses asked the Lord. Moses continues by questioning the name of God, where God replies in verse 14, “I Am Who I Am”, which is rather the name for Yahweh.

Moses was insecure and had a lot of doubt that he was worth being called, and that the Egyptians would not believe him. In chapter four, God addresses Moses and tells him the signs and miracles that will accompany Moses, and yet, Moses still pleads with God, saying, “‘O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I'm not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied and my words get tangled.’” 

The truth of the matter is, we have no worth without God. But the Lord has spoken about who you are over and over again in scripture, and your calling into His plan. Isaiah 43:1 says, “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine”. 1 Peter 2:9 says, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light". 

Today, I encourage you to stop living in comparison to the world, because all that will do is breed insecurity in your mind. We will never be able to measure up to society standards… because we weren’t called to. When we measure who we are by God’s standard and walk in our intended purpose for our lives, we will walk in freedom in the confidence of Christ.