How to Be Insecure for the Rest of Your Life
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00:00:02.580 | We're back with hip hop artist and our good friend,
00:00:07.440 | Trip Lee.
00:00:08.280 | Trip, you recently tweeted this, quote,
00:00:10.740 | "Insecurity only exists when we try to find security in self.
00:00:15.740 | "Finding hope in a God who never disappoints
00:00:19.080 | "can only make you feel more secure," end quote.
00:00:23.600 | So explain that.
00:00:25.320 | How does our mistaken self-sufficiency
00:00:28.320 | feed our personal insecurities?
00:00:31.120 | Well, I tweeted that that particular morning
00:00:35.280 | because that's what I was feeling in my heart.
00:00:37.760 | You know, I was feeling somewhat insecure.
00:00:41.000 | I don't, to be honest, I don't even remember
00:00:42.340 | what it was about, but it became really clear to me
00:00:45.080 | very quickly that it was because I was looking to myself.
00:00:47.840 | You know, I wasn't good enough or strong enough
00:00:50.640 | to make things happen the way I wanted them to.
00:00:53.320 | You know, I can think of many times that I feel like that.
00:00:55.200 | And I needed the reminder in that moment
00:00:57.040 | that my security shouldn't be in my goodness
00:00:59.480 | or my strength anyway.
00:01:01.000 | You know, so I am gonna look at myself sometimes
00:01:03.280 | and think, you know what, I'm not strong enough,
00:01:05.640 | or I'm not good enough, or, you know,
00:01:07.840 | I'm not great enough in my job,
00:01:09.520 | or I'm not the best rapper of all time,
00:01:11.040 | or I'm not as good as an author as John Piper,
00:01:12.880 | or I'm not this or that.
00:01:14.380 | But if I look to those things for my security,
00:01:17.040 | then I'm setting myself up to be insecure every day
00:01:19.800 | for the rest of my life.
00:01:21.340 | So, you know, of course I'd feel unsafe
00:01:23.520 | if I was on a flight and my safety depended
00:01:25.440 | on my knowledge of how to fly a plane.
00:01:27.120 | Of course I would feel unsafe.
00:01:28.400 | I don't know anything about flying a plane.
00:01:29.880 | I don't have the power to do that.
00:01:31.380 | But I'm not the pilot, you know?
00:01:33.040 | So I can feel safe when I'm in a plane
00:01:34.840 | because it's in the pilot's hand and he's trained.
00:01:38.240 | And so when I think about my life, you know what,
00:01:39.740 | I'm not sovereign, I'm not all-knowing.
00:01:42.440 | The Lord hasn't perfected me yet, but God is.
00:01:45.640 | Christ is.
00:01:46.920 | And that's where I'm finding my security.
00:01:48.960 | So the more and more I look to this God,
00:01:51.800 | so when I look at myself, I'm gonna disappoint.
00:01:53.960 | You know, I'm gonna fall short sometimes.
00:01:56.160 | You know, I'm gonna even go back on things that I said
00:01:59.160 | and I'm gonna have room for lots of growth.
00:02:01.660 | And so when I try to find hope there,
00:02:03.560 | I'll be constantly disappointed.
00:02:05.040 | But if I look to God and I try to find hope in him,
00:02:07.720 | well, I'm never gonna be disappointed
00:02:09.200 | 'cause every day I'm gonna wake up
00:02:11.000 | and there ain't gonna be no mercies waiting for me.
00:02:13.160 | And every day when I pray,
00:02:14.960 | I'm gonna know I have this advocate in Christ
00:02:17.520 | that intercedes between me and God.
00:02:19.920 | And I'm gonna know that in my future,
00:02:22.240 | God's gonna wipe away every tear from my eyes.
00:02:24.400 | And I'm gonna read scripture
00:02:25.400 | and I'm gonna see him being faithful to his people
00:02:28.520 | over and over again, going before his people
00:02:30.200 | and battling and sending Jesus
00:02:31.840 | and just goodness and strength and sovereignty on display.
00:02:35.600 | And the more I look to that God,
00:02:37.120 | the more I'm gonna feel more and more secure.
00:02:40.400 | The more I'm gonna feel more safe.
00:02:42.160 | So God is sovereign and all-knowing and strong.
00:02:45.520 | And that's where real hope and peace is gonna come from
00:02:47.920 | that really can't be moved because God can't be moved.
00:02:51.320 | - Yeah, amen.
00:02:52.160 | And what I find interesting is that when you woke up,
00:02:54.000 | you felt the insecurity and you had the instinct to know
00:02:57.520 | that it was a mistaken understanding of the goodness of God.
00:03:01.280 | - Absolutely, because I know when I feel that way,
00:03:04.680 | that's kind of my heart rising up.
00:03:07.000 | And that's why I need to go to scripture every single day.
00:03:09.480 | I'm gonna wake up feeling like that so often
00:03:11.720 | and I desperately, desperately need scripture
00:03:13.320 | to correct me in that every day.
00:03:15.160 | - Amen, that's well said.
00:03:17.200 | Thank you, Tripp.
00:03:18.040 | And tomorrow I wanna talk about your new book, "Rise,"
00:03:20.560 | and especially what you say about procrastination,
00:03:23.520 | which no surprise, you have some mature thoughts
00:03:25.520 | to share on this topic as well.
00:03:27.960 | Tripp Lee's latest album and his new book
00:03:29.600 | are both titled "Rise," and you can find them now
00:03:32.480 | at amazon.com.
00:03:34.200 | I'm your host, Tony Reinke.
00:03:35.280 | Thanks for listening.
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