Overcoming Insecurity

We are pursuing a dream…a vision…perhaps even a destiny we believe God has laid on our hearts for our family and the generations to come. It’s been years in the making and is culminating in a move to Oregon to pursue family farming.

Currently, our family of 8 is still living with dear friends in their basement. Daily, it seems to be a battle of the mind.

Will I meditate on His promises, setting my mind on things above? Or will I focus on the “giants in the land?”

In our ten years of marriage, we have lived in 3 different countries, 3 different states and 12 different homes. I thought if I could only own a house then I’d finally have true roots in a location that I could call home. We bought our first home 1 1/2 years ago only to have just sold it.

So much for roots.

But I don’t say this with disappointment or bitterness. For years, I yearned to be a homeowner, thinking it would bring me greater security. Only to find that it didn’t. The security I lack isn’t found in my circumstances. It’s found in a person. It’s to be found in Jesus.

I’ve known this. Heard this. Read this. But I continue to need to experience this. Experience His faithfulness. Experience Him as a firm foundation when I have no where of my own to lay my head.

This season of transition is tailor made for me to learn more about trusting Him.

Keys to Overcoming Insecurity

• “Wickedness never brings stability, but the godly have deep roots.” (Proverbs 12:3)

Ahhh…When I read this, the striving seemed to cease and I felt my spirit sigh. It’s a fact.

Whether I always feel them or not, I have deep roots because I am godly by the blood of Jesus. When insecurity tries to topple me, I can fall back on this word. This is my truth. This is the truth into which I can grow up.

• “Put your trust in the Lord your God and you will be established.” (2 Chronicles 20:20)

We moved because we saw God open doors and felt His leading. Two months later, all our things are in storage, we are still technically living out of our suitcases, and we don’t yet have a farm. But my hope and trust remains in the Lord.

Trusting Him is our key to being established in this new town, in this new community, in this dream of ours.

• “May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high.” (Psalm 20:1)

Where are my roots? Where is my security? Where is my sense of belonging? In His name.

When I feel shaken, I can rest in His many names. 

This is who He is for me. This is who He is for you.

El Shaddai: The All-Sufficient One (Gen. 91:1)

El Roi: The God Who Sees Me (Gen. 16:13)

El Sali: The God of My Strength (Ps. 42:9)

Immanuel: God With Us (Isaiah 7:14)

This is not an exhaustive formula…

just what I’m learning about where my “home” truly is. It’s in Him!

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