Emotional Randoms

I've just had one of those days when random emotions sweep over me throughout the day. Deep sadness was one of them. It makes me so sad that so many people struggle so much with deep-rooted insecurity. Myself being one of them. Insecurity is such an ugly thing. It is absolutely vital that we realize that our worth cannot be based on our actions, or our performance, or our looks, or our acceptance by others. Our worth is in Christ alone. This is something that I need to truly learn to accept. I constantly second guess myself and beat myself up all day long because of stupid things! I allow condemnation and guilt define me. Ridiculous, I'm tired of it!!! There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST JESUS!! (Romans 8 I think) I also had a wave of almost tears just hearing about a daughter and a father having a conversation. Her dad has struggled with alcoholism his entire life and has been sober now for almost a year I think. She said since he gave up drinking he's started eating more sweets and drinking Mountain Dew. He went to the dentist this week who discovered he has 8 cavities. Well, her dad was telling her this and beating himself up for it and fretting about the cost of getting all the cavities filled and literally beating himself up for getting all of these cavities. She just looked at him and told him that she is so proud of him and she will pay for every single one of his cavities because this is so much better than when he was drinking. Just that picture of a daughter telling her dad she's proud of him and its okay to have some stupid cavities because him being present is so much more important than his dental hygiene. I don't know, I've just had one of those days where I realized how broken and screwed up and hurting we all are. All of us. Every single one is a complete mess. And Christ took our sin upon himself, LITERALLY on the cross so that we could be saved. Jesus is so awesome, dude! I just love Him. I just wish more people would realize how much He loves them.