Five Minute Friday is weekly link up where you free write on a particular word prompt for five minutes. The prompt for this week is "Need". Setting a timer, ready, go:
I have everything I need IN me. I forget that. I look around to the people in my life and
wrongly believe that I don’t have what it takes, that I somehow NEED someone
else to help me. I think believing the
truth that God IN me provides all I need and that I have what it takes to
accomplish whatever task, is a truth many women struggle to live out in their
daily lives. Somewhere, way back when we
were little girls, some of us were told explicitly or implicitly that we were needy,
the “weaker” vessel. For some that
caused a rebellion and a mind set of “I’ll show you, I don’t NEED anyone” and
for others it created the opposite effect.
I believe church culture has played part in overemphasizing the “weaker
vessel” passages in the Bible and somehow it was translated in our minds as something
negative. Thus, we lost our way, believing
we needed something outside ourselves to “complete us”.
Being needy isn’t all bad. Needy helpers are THE BEST helpers. Acknowledging my need for God is
worship. He loves for me to be dependent
on him. And, in truth, I am. The fact that I am breathing, my heart is
beating and I am a walking, talking, seeing, hearing individual is all due to
my creator and his sustaining my existence.
I do NEED Him. And I need other
people as well. I was created for
relationship with God, myself and others.
To deny my need is to deny my humanity.
Remembering I have all I need inside me is something I’m
practicing and I’m making good progress.
I’ll never be perfect at it, but no one is, so I’m in good company.
