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Insecurity and Jesus Christ

Insecurity and anxiety are debilitating emotions. Nothing affects behavior more than feelings of insecurity. When humanity snubbed our creator we fell deep depths of insecurity and vulnerability.

When a person begins to believe in and follow Jesus Christ, very often the most notable and immediate affects He has on us is an inner sense of security and peace. I prize that sense of security as one of the most priceless gifts in my life.

But there are times when as a Christian our security and anxiety levels can be rattled. Furthermore have different weaknesses and even emotional wounds and illnesses to overcome if we are to feel secure and free of anxiety. Tehre is more work to be done and I believe its work of Jesus Christ through others that can help us to rest secure. It is a committment and a pursuit of Jesus Christ that every Chrsitian must take up if they are to experience that secure and stable emotional resting place.

Feelings the sense of being left out, feeling the need to accuse others. Feeling the needs to criticize everything around you that doesn’t meet your expectations. Feeling the sense that life is passing us by and things are left undone can be a result or even a cause of deep inner insecurity.

As in all things it is Jesus Christ himself who gets the job done for us initially and throughout a lifetime. Jesus Christ makes us to rest secure perpetually and ongoing as we face new and different difficulties. He is the one who makes us rest daily under the shadow of his wings. He makes us safe from harm, he heals our diseases, he forgives us our trespasses. But he also sends us friends, he give us jobs, he provides for our needs. He illuminates our darkness and opens the eyes of our understanding.

But if you are feeling a sense of insecurity and regret you should begin to pray, begin to pursue him begin to seek him with great resolve. Pour out your heart to him and watch him do to your emotions what only he can do.

If you are seeking first Jesus Christ nothing feels left undone, only his feelings of things left undone become ours and he lets us get to work on them, which brings us great joy. If we are seeking first Jesus Christ our accusations and criticism’s of others and of the situations we find, just melt away and we simply stop feeling inferior. If we are seeking first Jesus Christ we become settled in our hearts, stable in our behavior, calmly confident of our lives and our situations.

And the the ‘Wonderful Counselor’, and ‘The Comforter’, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ does an inner work in us that no one else could possibly do.

Means To An End …Becoming The End

In business when we hire new people the goal is to train them to do a job independently and not need continual training and reminding, reassurance, and driving them hard, to do a particular job. Some jobs this takes many months, other jobs it takes just a day or two.

In discipleship the goal is the same. The training (teaching) is a means to an end.

The end is spiritual maturity and a person who listens to, cooperates with and responds to the life of Jesus Christ within.

That is the most precise definition one can muster because this life of God in a cooperating and listening person looks different in everyone.

The act of training and discipleship is not THE end in itself.

If you’ve been trained in seminary or elsewhere that the training is the end itself, it’s time to retrain. All is not lost.

Not even evangelism is a legitimate end to justify the forever sermonizing a community. Sometimes Jesus is not evangelizing, there is no autopilot that if we do abc that is success. No hearing cooperating and serving the life of Jesus is the end for all ministry.

The Sunday sermon is engineered to be the end, it is either:

1) intellectual religious entertainment among the thoughtful Christians.
or
2) Repeated reassurance I am going to heaven among the evangelicals.
or
3) Repeated reassurance I am living a life pleasing to God (and myself) among the rich Christians.
4) Repeated reassurance I can try harder and be better and solve my problems, among the poor Christians.

Just to name a few.

If that is your ministry philosophy, forever teaching but never bringing followers to a place of self sufficiency your philosophy is deeply flawed.

Even Jesus did not do that. Jesus sent his disciples out after and during the training time, (within 3 years of beginning) then after only 3 years he left them alone to the Holy Spirit.

Paul would take just a few months to teach his disciples then leave them to the Holy Spirit. Him Leaving was critical to their growth and dependence on the Spirit as a group.

How long have you been hearing sermons you agree with? 5, 10, 25, 50 years?

The Sunday sermon (which I have loved for years) is more like a Greek pagan philosophizing tradition, adopted for Sunday mornings.

Inexplicable Loyalty

The loyalty and hope that so many place in our governments on both sides of the aisle is demonic.

It is often more than just misplaced confidence or contempt for evil on the other side. It is demonically inspired and motivated hope and trust.

It’s not demonic because the governments are so evil, some are, and some are not.

But There is an Inexplicable blind trust and confidence in human government, for absolutely no good reason.

It is a demonic loyalty because so many Christians now have no love and no hope in the control and power of Jesus Christ, so utterly dismissive of him are we to do anything, so indifferent are so many of us to him, and to what he wants!

So much so that it has become idolatry …to the point of hostility to him.

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