The
secure person...
“Is
at rest and he need not envy, covert, compete by comparing, to prove something
to himself or others...”
― SY ROGERS
How may we define the insecure
person from the secure person? Well, fortunately, Sy Rogers has already done
that above; or at least started us in that direction. We can know, in faith,
that the secure person has the resources to draw on in order to make his or her
life comparatively fulfilling, enjoyable, and capable of enduring – with joy – many
difficulties.
Is it too hard for the secure
person to find the uncomfortable life, comfortable? No, it is their role to
accept life as it is.
***
No coveting, nor
comparing, nor envying do they do,
But the secure person
tries to hold to everything true,
Their identity in Christ
is solemn and steadfast,
Upon to Him alone do their burdens get cast.
Being a secure person is the acceptable life, because tolerance comes easy
to the person who tolerates life where many would find it unacceptable. The
secure person has no need for power or influence or to manipulate. Hence they
handle power and influence capably. They can serve others, because they want to.
Being Secure and Providing Security
It is difficult, perhaps
impossible, to provide others with security when we, of ourselves, have not
received that gift. How are we to do unto others as we would have them do to us
when we haven’t first enjoyed the blessing of being secure inside our own skin?
We tend to simply expect that
because we are Christian we have already gained this sense of inner security.
But in all reality, for so many of us, we don’t achieve a healthy sense of
self-confidence without having first done the work on ourselves that God’s Spirit
wants us to do.
We have to come to terms with the
fact that we have little to offer, security-wise, if we have no security to
offer ourselves. We are unable to serve as God would have us serve – limited in
both capacity and capability – if we haven’t worked on routinely surrendering
to the point where coveting, competing, comparing, and envying are all dealt
with.
***
God wants us to be secure people,
both for ourselves and for others. Secure people – who are connected with, and
not disconcerted by, their brokenness – can be effective within the Kingdom
context. What we have ourselves we have to offer others – in this case, safety and
security, which is trustworthiness.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
It's something of a paradox that Abraham, father of all three major Faiths, walked out into insecurity - and kept walking - but with trust in his heart. I often wonder what his family must have been thinking. Were they as trusting as Abraham - did they feel safety, security and trust in their hearts?
ReplyDeleteNo doubt they (probably like he) felt a lot of insecurity... faith must be forged on the anvil of insecurity.
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