Love

Recently, I've come to the conclusion that I have way too many insecurities.

What I have decided to do to combat these issues is to write down everything that I am insecure about, whether it is something I think is wrong with me physically, whether it is something wrong with my personality, or whether it is something that I am afraid of becoming.

After writing down that list, I chose to group my insecurities together by theme. What this did for me was allow me to see what it was that I am REALLY insecure about. I found three major themes.

Before going further into this, I just want to say right now, I am not writing this to "fish" for compliments or anything... basically I'm just sharing a way that God has used to help me feel encouraged instead of the way I normally feel. :)

With that said, my three major themes are:

I am unlovable
I am worthless
I am unattractive

I didn't realize just how much Satan was attacking me with lies... but now that I have realized it, I have chosen to use scripture, God's Word that is 100% true, to ward of Satan's attacks.

So today I chose to work on attacking the insecurity of being unlovable. These are the verses that I have so far. I'm pretty sure that I will end up writing more and more verses as I find them.

Fighting against Satan's lies is not a one time thing. He will continue trying to undermine God's Word for the rest of my life, so it is my job to be prepared for those attacks.

So here it is, straight from my journal:

Psalm 139 - O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar ... If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Romans 5:8 - but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in Him should not parish but would have everlasting life.

John 14:21 - Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me. And he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.

Romans 8:38, 39 - For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation. will be able to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

and last but DEFINITELY not least, the super long passage:

John 15:9-17 - As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my life, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one that this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Moral of the story:

I am NOT unlovable. 

and neither are you.