A Complex Emotion

Me:  This doesn’t look like much…

Prodigal:  It doesn’t matter what it looks like, it is good here.

Me:  I agree, God values a lot because He sees the truth.

This is from the book:  So Long Insecurity by Beth Moore

You can hurt my feelings, but you cannot have my security.

I won’t let you.  It’s mine to keep.  You cannot have it.

You can criticize me and even be right about what I did wrong, but you do not

get to damage my security.  It’s mine to keep.  You cannot have it.

You might have embarrassed me, but I refuse to let it fall on me

so heavily that it smothers my security.  It’s mine to keep.

You cannot have it.

You may be so intimidating and threatening that I feel I have to hand a lot of things to you,

but I refuse to hand over my security.  Who are you doesn’t get to dwarf who I am.

My security is mine to keep.  You cannot have it.

Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of strength:  let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothes with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

2 Chronicles 6:41

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

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