Defective

"I hate that I can still be so easily shaken, and somehow I convince myself that if I could just develop a healthy enough psyche, life couldn't touch me" (So Long Insecurity, pg 51)

How did Beth Moore get into my head? Is it plagiarism if you never wrote it down? Seriously, I think we "mature" Christians get down on ourselves for getting down. Instead of realizing that we are human, and running to our Father when we are hurting. We try to buck up, make it all better ourselves and end up feeling defective.

"I am broken and no amount of superglue or duct tape is going to keep me together, keep me from splitting apart."

Sad, but that is how most of us walk around, wounded, alone and about to split apart trying to hold ourselves together with duct tape and glue.

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved...For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your feet from being snared...So do not throw away your confidence, it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God you will receive what He has promised.