you know i wanted to hit on this idea of of not being enough because i i sense that so many
women um even those watching this now have this this gaping hole in their heart where it becomes
performative which is exactly what you know as we look at this passage of scripture and we're kind
of to your point lisa checking the box because our goal is to become enough to become worthy
and i think it's really rooted in insecurity and i want to speak for a moment about what that is
because many people think insecurity is about ego insecurity is about arrogance
but in fact insecurity is not a question of what you have it's not a question of your ego
it's a question of what is your identity secured to if your identity is secured to the approval
of people then you're going to be insecure why because people's opinions are fickle you know
maybe today you did an amazing job and everyone's applauding and maybe tomorrow you do the exact
same quality but people are like ah that wasn't good enough and so you become insecure because
you've literally secured your identity to an unstable foundation and that's why
i always keep going back to verse 30 which is the idea that charm is deceptive beauty is fleeting
but a woman who fears the lord is to be praised why because when you fear the lord when you
reverence the lord when you honor the lord you are securing your identity to who he says you
are not who everybody else thinks you are but who god says you are and so the reality is
are we enough the answer is we're enough but we're not just enough we were deemed worth dying for
and to me that is the eternal answer to the question am i enough i mean jesus knowing
everything that we would think do say every shortfall every shortcoming we would have
still got up on that cross right and he said you know what you are worth this so good i love
what you mentioned about um you know the fear of the lord and oftentimes when you are you know when
the lord leaves the 99 for the one you won't understand it until you become the one right
and so um like like brittany she mentioned um just this feeling of being the outsider
um feeling that am i doing enough and what nona what you said about security i think you know when
you have when you are the one where do you begin and because if charm is deceptive and beauty is
fleeting but the one who fears the lord is worthy to be praised well what does fear mean what does
that mean in the context of the scriptures and so the the baseline the bottom line that just
the starting point is fear looks like a respect for the lord fear looks like making him priority
fear looks like honoring the lord and having him as your focal point of worship so whatever used
to rule and reign which is either your wants your desires your your agenda your pinterest
account as lisa would refer to it um your highly you know edited photos on instagram
that now takes a back seat way back over here and all of a sudden jesus takes the throne of
your life and he now he becomes the focal point of fear meaning now he has your respect your
worship your honor and he becomes a focal point and so when we think of of that that gives me the
fuel to be brave that gives me the fuel to stand strong that gives me the fuel to live in virtue so
what is virtue it's just an old archaic word that means just a moral compass that he his priorities
become my priorities his values become my values and as now a child in the kingdom of god who's
who has experienced the love of god now i could see proverbs 31 in a new light it's not this
antiquated poem now it becomes the fuel of life as if the lord now views me through the grid of
now you are the commendable woman because your starting point began at fearing me honoring me
loving me worshiping me and it is my delight to serve him to honor him to respect him to worship
him and that is the fuel for my life and now when i raise kids when i homeschool when i'm leading
the church when i'm out there being a mom or being a best friend to someone and valuing other people
honoring those who are the unhoused community to those who are hungry and those who who are
orphaned and then turn around and and communicate with civic leaders and and being a diplomat
whatever i put my hand to now i have the focal point of jesus being the center of my life and so
i have i have loved brittany the story that that was the starting point and now you're flourishing
in your life of how god designed your life to be is to be this wonderful prophetic godly
proverbs 31 woman with better rhythm than any other style she can dance let me tell you
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