She likes me, she likes me not...

Welcome back for this week’s discussion of Lysa’s book, “Becoming More.” We are moving into the section on relationships and this week’s chapter is titled, “She Likes Me, She Likes Me Not.” Pause for a moment and drift back to your younger years…remember the game - pulling petals off of a flower and uttering those very words. Now come back to present times, chances are you’re no longer on the playground saying the words out loud, but there’s a possibility those same words still echo in your mind.

As Lysa says, “There is a fundamental need inside most girls to be liked.” She goes on to explain this need stays with us even when the junior high days come to an end because “NO amount of worldly achievement whisks away insecurities and that fundamental desire to be accepted. I know. I’ve tried.”

She continues, “If I want to make peace with inadequacy, I must face head-on those things that trigger such feelings, stop looking at others for validation, and learn to truly depend on God. Let’s call it like it is and say it out loud: I sometimes feel insecure and inadequate. No person or achievement can fix this. Only God can help me, reassure me, and fill up my empty places.”

This is true for Lysa TerKeurst, the president of Proverbs 31 and nationally known author and speaker, and friend the same is true for you and me as well. Though our minds may still play the game from time to time, let’s ask God to strengthen us and move our faith to a place where it doesn’t matter if she likes me or if she likes me not. And when those words from long ago replay in my head ask Him to remind us to use our insecurity as an advantage. Or in Lysa’s words, let it “prompt you to rely on God more fully.”

I’ll leave you with this, “Can you imagine what might happen if we let God show us how to use our insecurities and feelings of inadequacy as His prompts to love others more? I mean, really think about the simplicity of simply loving others and yet the absolute impact that is could make. And it is possible.”

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