How are you doing sisters, in this journey? Do you have somebody close to you that you can debrief with along the way? If you don't have someone yet...get someone. Connect on this blog through comments at the bottom of the post...even if it scares the living daylights out of you. Email me if you need to. But don't...sweet sister...just go it alone. I feel passionate about this and let me tell you, I know it's a vulnerable feeling to expose ourselves...specially to other women sometimes...but it is so worth it to walk together.
I have actually had a fascinating week discussing "roots" with some of you! It has had it's heavy moments as I remembered things and recognized things that are painful for me or ugly to look at but you know what...once the Lord reveals it, and you're ready to get rid of it, you know girl that you are on the way to being free! And I hope that, that is where you are.
Some of you have already read through the book. Don't stop there. Come back and journey with us. Don't be afraid to answer the questions for yourself and do the homework. I believe it is listening to Jesus in the journey and talking to Him through every step that brings the freedom and security that we all desire. Yes it takes work, but there is no book out there that can give us a quick fix to insecurity and make us secure by the time we read that last page. Beth Moore can't make us secure, only Jesus. Take Him by the hand and lets continue together to fight for what is already ours. Let's encourage one another and build each other up in the faith. Girls...do you know what has blessed my heart and encouraged me to press on? When I felt like crap last Monday and couldn't write a thing to you until the next day...do you know who was on my heart and mind? Next to Jesus...it was you! About 25 of you have come to me here and there and are sharing a little bit of your life with me on this journey and I love it! I know I'm not alone. You are not alone. You encourage me. You encourage those around you. Share your journey. You will be amazed at how your sisters next to you will be encouraged too.
Okay...Here's this weeks assignment. Chapter 7 is a heavy one but Beth says she put it in there so we would get so sick and tired of what insecurity has done to us and those around us that we would be desperate and ready for freedom. Well girls...I'm in. Chapter 8 rounds the corner to hope. I'm even more in.
1. What part of Chapter 7 hit home with you most and why?
2. (If you're choosing only two, please include this one.) Based on your journey so far in chapters 1-8, list your own personal top three reasons why it's time to deal with your insecurity. (We're not looking for right answers. We're looking for YOUR answers. Don't copy off your fellow sojourners' papers on this one. Grin.) So that you don't get your numbers confused here, list your 3 reasons under A.B.&C.
3. Based on Chapter 8, briefly describe a recent trigger of insecurity and whether or not it got a rise out of you.
4. Also based on Chapter 8, what does dignity mean to you?
Some of you have told me that you have gotten frustrated trying to post a comment. I can understand and it is totally confusing until you've done it a few times. If you want to comment and/or post your answers to the above questions (I dare you)...smile...click on the word comments at the bottom of the post. Next, you must choose an identity. If you are new to this and do not have a google account, the easiest way is to choose anonymous. Once you have chosen your identity, you may write your comment in the box and then click publish, to post your comment. I'll see you there.
Praying for all of you this week as we grow together. You are precious.
Julie
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Well girls...I'm back on here to answer Beth's questions.
ReplyDelete1. Chapter 7 was an interesting one. I read through it once and then went back through and high-lighted the bold print descriptions of what insecurity can do, in between the personal stories they represented. Just listen to them:
Insecurity can make you act like an idiot in female friendships.
Insecurity can cause a mom to be overcontrolling or just generally out of control.
Insecurity can turn a gifted person into the competition.
Insecurity weighs heavily in weight issues.
Insecurity can turn a priceless daughter of God into a bootlicker.
Insecurity can veil our vision and blind us to how blessed we are.
Insecurity can even rear its hideous head at the drive-through.
Insecurity can confine us.
Insecurity can talk us into doing things we don't even want to do.
Insecurity can make us give an entirely wrong impression.
Insecurity can make us overcompensate.
Insecurity can keep us from accepting compliments and, far worse, from accepting love.
Insecurity explodes with rejection and can twist our perceptions.
Insecurity can make a fool out of you by making a liar out of you.
Insecurity can make you wear weird stuff.
Insecurity can turn you into a public fool.
Insecurity can turn us into posers.
Insecurity can make a girl act like a guy.
Insecurity can keep you from expressing yourself.
Insecurity can be a relentless robber.
Well....I'd be lying if I said I didn't relate in some form or another, at some time or another with almost all of those. But the one that really struck home to me was that insecurity can be a relentless robber.
From Page 141...."insecurity has kept me from so many things. It has kept me from instigating friendships that I desperately needed, kept me from pursuing career goals that I know God planted in my heart, and kept me from trying new things that would have been good for me." And then..."Insecurity makes us settle. Insecurity makes us distracted. Insecurity robs our confidence in our rich inheritance from God. Insecurity makes us put our gifts on a shelf to gather demonic dust. Insecurity disturbs our sleep. Insecurity derails our life."
There are too many things that I have wanted to do but I have been too scared to do them...or do them well.
2. a] I'm ready to move on.
b] I've had a taste of freedom and I want more.
c] I've been given the gift of ultimate security. It's time to own it. I'm tired of listening to lies and allowing insecurity to control me or hold me back.
3. My recent trigger is that I recently called a friend and she did not call me back right away...(something I'm totally guilty of doing myself) but I immediately thought, " I wonder if I've hurt her feelings...I wonder if she's mad at me". My past tendencies have been to obsess over it and try as I might to think of anything I might have done to make her upset. The immediate thoughts did come but I stopped them and told myself that I must believe that she knows I love her and if for some reason I had hurt her feelings without knowing it...I would trust her to let me know.
4. Dignity is knowing who I am in the heart of Jesus.
Wow...It took a little time but yeah...this is good stuff.
Julie