Top 7 Bible Verses About Insecurity

Here are my top seven Bible verses about insecurity.

Insecurity

Prolonged periods of insecurity can cause anxiety and this explains why anxiety is so prevalent in our society today. Insecurity comes in about as many shapes and sizes as do people. It could include panic attacks, phobias, and social anxieties. Just daily living is sometimes enough to trigger our anxieties. Our anxieties might be based upon our relationship problems, financial problems, job security worries, and/or health concerns. It could be insecurity about a person’s salvation or their standing before God. They might even fear death. We may have one or more of these issues to deal with or we may have all of them and all at the same time! It seems like trouble comes in bunches and when this happens, it starts to have a cumulative effect but listen to what God says as He thunders from heaven “Thus says the Lord” in these verses designed to dissipate your insecurities.

Jeremiah 17:8 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Not only are worries, anxieties, and insecurities a waste of energy, a person misses out on the blessing of God because God will bless “the man (or woman) who trusts in the Lord.” He or she will be like a tree that’s been planted by a source of water where its root can reach the ever-running stream of living water. The person who trusts in God has no need to fear when drought or heat comes because their roots have a life-giving resource that never runs dry. Even in times of spiritual droughts they will “not cease to bear fruit” but there can be no fruit if there is no root. That means we must be abiding in the vine on a daily basis (John 15:1-11).

First John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Too often people that have been saved walk around with guilt from their past and this make them very insecure about their salvation. They might feel saved one day and then sin the next day and feel hopelessly condemned, but the Bible never teaches such a thing can happen. The Apostle John reminds us that if we confess our sins to God, He not only forgives us but cleanses us from all unrighteousness. The word “all” in the Greek has no special meaning other than all! The question is, will we believe what God says in His Word or will we believe what we feel in our hearts? Remember that our hearts are deceitful and very untrustworthy (Jer 17:9)?

First John 4:18 “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.”

If you’re secure in your faith in Christ then you have no need to fear but if there is sin in your life on a consistent basis, then your fears may be well grounded because elsewhere in 1st John he writes that “No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him” (1st John 3:6) since “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother” (1st John 3:9-10) so clearly, “Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil” (1st John 3:8a). The perfecting love of Christ helps us to cast out all fear.

Philippians 4:6-7 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Instead of worrying about everything, why not pray about everything? That’s what Paul is saying and so instead of dwelling on the negative things dwell on “whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things” (Phil 4:8). It’s like a replacement; where certain (godly thoughts) things push out other things (negative thoughts); the anxiety is replaced by thinking of things that are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, and whatever is worthy of praise; Paul says “think about these things.”

Matthew 6:25-26 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”

Jesus covered about every concern that the disciples could have had in that day; food, drink, clothing, the body, and even the provisions for tomorrow. Jesus wants us to know that God provides even for the birds of the air, and since He provides for them, why would He not provide for us, especially since we’re “of more value than they” to Him.

Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

This verse should be a memory verse if you are insecure about your standing before God since “since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1) and it is “Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God” (Rom 5:2).

Psalm 23:2-3 “He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.”

This may be the most well-known of all chapters in the Bible. Almost all of us can identify with walking in the valley of the shadow of death; either from personal experience or someone we know. Who hasn’t been touched by death? The good thing about the Great Shepherd is that He’s there to lead us out of the valley, but not necessarily keep us from entering the valley. He doesn’t take us around the valley or over the valley but He will go with us through the valley. By the way, shadows are not the same thing as realities. I’d rather get hit by the shadow of a bus than a real one. For all of us, it is only by the Great Shepherd’s grace that we may say “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

Conclusion

Don’t ever stumble over what’s behind you. Neither trip over tomorrow. Just focus on today. I suppose if you boiled down what insecurity is for the believer, it is a lack of trust or faith in God that He will provide for their needs. I plead guilty too, so it is for me and for you that we again are reminded what Jeremiah wrote; “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit” (Jer 17:8). Job trusted God so much he could say that even “Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face” (Job 13:15).

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.com.