So Long, Insecurity!

That's right! What a great night of Bible study... I just love our little group of girlies (you know who you are!). :) We started the "So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us" Group Experience by Beth Moore study this week and it has already been such a blessing. When I first heard of this newest book by Beth, I honestly didn't think much about it and certainly didn't get all that excited about it. After all, of all the problems I have, insecurity isn't one of them. Ha! Forgive me, I was so naively arrogant.

I have little speakers set up in my bathroom and kitchen so I can get online (thank heavens for smart phones) and listen to radio messages while doing my hair & makeup or the dishes, etc... Among the many I love at http://www.oneplace.com/ are Charles Swindoll, David Jeremiah, and of course, Beth Moore (Living Proof). I had just finished Beth's amazing archived series, Wising Up, and saw that the So Long Insecurity audio book was also in the archives. More curious than anything, I started listening...and listening...and quickly realized she had hit on a huge nerve with women in general--myself included. According to Webster's Dictionary, insecure is simply being "uncertain, unsafe and/or shaky"...all emotions myself and the rest of the human race experience on a fairly regular basis. After listening to the first few chapters, I started to connect many of my past and even some current actions and decisions to insecurity. It also began to ring bells with other women I had opportunity to speak to, and so began my desire to study this book and encourage other women to join me in learning to recognize insecurity and what it means to find my security in Christ alone. I hope you'll join us. I have a few more study guides on-hand and we're only in by 1 week, so it would be easy to catch up! Every Monday at 6:30pm. Email me asap if you'd like more info babrams819@hotmail.com.

Below is a blurb from the website http://www.solonginsecurity.com/. You can also follow a link on the same site to read the 1st chapter.

We’re insecure. You and me and every woman.  In fact, chronic insecurity is a cultural epidemic, but almost no one is talking about it. And it ticks me off.

Today’s women face unrealistic expectations, and then we’re bombarded with unrealistic images every day, making us more and more insecure. We’re insecure about everything from our looks to our worth as women, from our relationships to our futures, and everything else in between. You name it, and we’re probably insecure about it. Let’s be honest here. Insecurity makes us miserable. It cripples us. It makes us feel worthless. Insecurity has been a bad friend to us. It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s time to say “So long!” to insecurity. How? First we have to understand it, and the good news is that insecurity is understandable. The even better news is that insecurity is curable.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8

May we find our security in Him today,