Security… protected from danger. How secure are you?
Do you pay for one of those security systems for your home so that when you are in danger, help will come to the rescue?
Do you have an arsenal ready to meet intruders?
Do you have securities? Stocks and bonds. Equities and options. Certificates. Mutual funds. Money in the bank?
Do you have a dead bolt on your door that would keep out the uninvited?
Just what is it that you put on the list of things that make you secure?
Perhaps it is government….the law of the land…laws that forbid anyone or anything to steal your secure status.
Perhaps it is medicine… physicians and surgeons….if/when sickness or injury comes, there should be a pill or treatment or a surgery to prevent your secure health from being compromised or lost.
Whatever it is you put on your list. It’s a lie.
There IS no security other than the eternal security in Jesus Christ.
Laws won’t do it, the Ten Commandments are a witness to that fact. Government won’t do it. It is impossible to legislate right behavior. There is a presence of evil in our world.
“for what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending His own Son…”(Rom. 8:3)
Money won’t do it. The value changes, it is unstable and unreliable. And what is it really except paper or chunks of metal? Who decides what it’s value is?
“Since you trust in your deeds and your riches, you too will be taken….”(Jer. 48:7)
“though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.”(Ps. 62:10)
Guns and armies won’t do it. Battles and wars have been taking lives the entire history of our race, and still we struggle to be secure.
“Woe to those…who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the Lord.” (Isa. 31:1)
“My hope is certain. My hope is something for my soul to hold on to. My hope is strong and secure. My hope goes all the way into the Most Holy Room behind the curtain. That is where Jesus has gone. He went there to open the way ahead of me…”
(Heb.6:19 NIrV personalized by me)
I am forever secure. Hallelujah.
