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Acts 17:28 (nkjv)

"For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring."

Insecurity. It's an ugly beast whose presence invades and dominates our world and society, breaking people all over the place. My best friend and I were on a little road trip a few weeks ago, and as we were talking about life and the world and solving everyone's problems (just kidding) we began to realize how many different ways in which stupid and evil insecurity manifests itself in people's lives. It's unbelievable. Look at the insecure person who sits scared, shy and coy in the corner of a room full of people scared to make a peep because the fear of people grips their precious minds and souls. Watch with embarrassment the loud mouth who dominates and monopolizes every conversation they are a part of because they want to be noticed, heard and understood. Have you experienced when someone who loves you goes over the top not wanting to put you out or put pressure on you, and it ends up feeling like they don't want you around, except they really do...?

I think Jesus is the coolest cat who ever walked around because He was secure in who He was - He was a child of His father in Heaven, and that is the way we can be exactly like Him. Whether it's you or the other person in the room, try to spot the insecure person and have compassion on them. They can't help it, they've been broken by someone or something, and that is all they know. You could even go one step further and pray for them and love them - show/introduce to them the Jesus who was secure, confident and when things got rough and maybe He forgot who He was for the moment, ran straight to His Father to get back His identity and worth. He knew that if no one around Him understood Him and loved Him, one certain Father did.

People are insecure, that's why they can be quiet, loud, shy, obnoxious, annoying and endearing. Instead of judgment, try to put a little bit of them back together.
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