Tag: Weakness
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3–4 minutesI struggle with pretty bad anxiety. There are times I avoid hanging out with people because it gives me so much anxiety. Sometimes, I feel that I just don’t fit in and fear I will be left on the outskirts of any group or conversation. I can find myself very easily overanalyzing everything. Every action and word of mine comes under scrutiny, and every response feels like an indictment against me. I often struggle to find comfort or ease when I participate, and I can feel an emptiness that is hard to describe. It is as if what feels like…
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2–3 minutesA person who is full tramples on a honeycomb, but to a hungry person, any bitter thing is sweet. Proverbs 27:7 The desire for fullness is one that we all have. It is in the satisfaction of being secure in the provision for our emotional, spiritual, and physical needs we can find true rest. In the absence of fullness, there is hunger, desire, and want. We all can be guilty of ignoring that emptiness. Seeing it as a sin, we can avoid acknowledging it. Finding ourselves busy with other things of importance, we can neglect it. Left unaddressed, it will…
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1–2 minutesTherefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16 Those feelings of being unable to control aspects of life, of being weak or simply not good…
