Beth Moore: So long insecurity We look once more for God in man, and just when we think weve found someone who can holdup high enough and long to assuage our fear of forgeottentenness. We get dropped. Pride is a driver, and it invariably drives us oppositte directionthan it promised. Humility is a crucial component in true security. Its the very thing that calms the average beast of pride. More important, humility is the heart of great paradox. We find our life when we lose them to something much larger. Perhaps the writer of Ecclesiastes had a hint of this in mind when he wrote that God has also set eternity in the hearts of men (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Eternity. In the hearts of mortals. It doesnt get bigger than that. Created in the image of God, we instinctively know that something enormous is within us. Pride is the result of mistaking the eternal for the temporal. We end up looking in to look up instead of looking up to look in. We get fixated on every self-again and every self-loss until, in our inordinate self-protection, we end up licking our wounds to the point that they cant heal. Pride. A root of insecurity if there ever was one. We will never feel better about ourselves by becoming more consumed with ourselves. Likewise, we will never feel better about ourselves by feeling worse about others. Superiority cant give birth to security. Neither, by the way, can the relentless pursuit of perfection. Earlier in our journey, i suggested that perfectionism is insecurity in art form. It never looks prettier and never acts deadlier. Although perfectionists seem very insecure, doubting their decisions, and actions, fearing mistakes and rejection, and having low opinions of themselves, at the same time, they have exaggerated emphasis on precision, order and organization, which suggests an aspiration to be better than others.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:30:52 +0000
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