True Security

Security. What does that word mean to you?


Let's see how the dictionary defines the word-


security (sî-ky¢r´î-tê) noun
plural securities
Abbr. sec.
1. Freedom from risk or danger; safety.
2. Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence.
3. Something that gives or assures safety, as:. a. A group or department of private guards: Call building security if a visitor acts suspicious. b. Measures adopted by a government to prevent espionage, sabotage, or attack. c. Measures adopted, as by a business or homeowner, to prevent a crime such as burglary or assault: Security was lax at the firm's smaller plant. d. Measures adopted to prevent escape: Security in the prison is very tight.
4. Computer Science. a. The level to which a program or device is safe from unauthorized use. b. Prevention of unauthorized use of a program or device.
5. Something deposited or given as assurance of the fulfillment of an obligation; a pledge.
6. One who undertakes to fulfill the obligation of another; a surety.
7. A document indicating ownership or creditorship; a stock certificate or bond.

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Very few people deny they would like security in their lives. Most people believe there is security in accumlating great wealth and keeping that wealth. Wealth means security from poverty and all that entails. Wealth does not offer security from health issues. Wealth is no security against accidents and injury. Wealth can not secure for you life everlasting.


Some think it's enough to have security here and now because the future is unknown fully. Ask a lot of people what they fear the most and they'll tell you something that has to do with losing security in some way.


It's not easy to trust to the point of losing all fear, is it? So many believe God has let them down, that He's let the whole world down, but they look only to the small picture painted with temporal paints. The overall plan for mankind is not one of a mere human life span, but of eternity. If a thousand years is as a single day to God what does that tell us? How many human life times in our time right now would it take to span a thousand years? Let's be generous and give 100 years as the average life span (we haven't quite reached there yet but for the sake of rounding off generously...) that's ten lifetimes, ten! That's you, your mother, your grandmother, your great grandmother, your great great grandmother, all the way up to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother. Very few people know who their 7 'greats' grandmother was- that was a 1000 years ago! Now think about it... ONE single day. We all know what that is, how short a time one single day is and yet a 1000 years is as a single day to God, ten of our generations is as a single day to God. He lives in eternity and He asks us to trust Him, to believe in Him, to find hope and forgiveness in Jesus Christ, the Son of God slain for us to have that opportunity. He's asking us to live our mere 100 years (if that) and live it in Him with the promise of eternity. How can the God of eternity be considered as one who let His creatures down when He offers us so much. While our suffering here is tremendous, for some more than others, in the long run that suffering will be nothing. No, it doesn't seem that way in the throes of agony- physically, mentally, emotionally- the pain is all consuming the tragedies of life all encompassing; yet all that is temporal.


The problem is we don't tend to look beyond the temporal. You've heard people tell you when you're having a rough time to just tell yourself it'll pass. I've done it more than once. I've even offered that advice. It will pass, and the majority of time it does pass doesn't it. The agony subsides, life goes on and we are left scarred by the tragedies that make up our lives. Scars we can trace to count out our years in existence, scars intermingled with the smooth, clear, unblemish flesh of happy moments, or at the least moments less traumatic. The good or the bad it doesn't matter, time marches on slowing down for no one. Our lives are blips on the screen of eternity, and that's how most people live their lives- believing that once their life ends that's it, that's all she wrote. The thing is, are we going to be blips that remain on the last radar circuit never to leave the radar screen but become a permanant fixture in eternity or will we be blips that vanish as though we've never been because we don't choose to let Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior exist in our lives as a living, breathing, life-saving, life-changing, life-guiding enitity. Make no mistake, we do the choosing but Satan would have us believe that all is decided long before we were born and we have no choices to make, we just have to go with the flow and hope for the best.


We can be rational human beings, some of us (though I'm not included) can even have super high IQ's and still believe in God and the way of salvation, the way to take life from a meaningless 100 painful years and change it to a painless eternity. Knowing that the eternity will be ruled in pure love, an existence of pure love in all ways does away with the warped belief of someone saying that no, they don't want to live forever not in all this strife.


There are so many misconceptions out there but the Bible holds the truth. Some will say that everyone can interpret the Bible differently but the Bible really interprets itself. We need to pray that we come to all truth in Jesus, even if it's not a truth we want to believe. We need to prayer for the truth and the ability to follow the truth when it is presented to us, all through the power of the Holy Spirit who is willing to guide us, to teach us, to offer us comfort and a joy that is unique and special from Him to us. No, we're not going to suddenly be guaranteed painfree lives- in fact our lives might become more painful because Satan will try harder to get us. We are promised life being the pain even if we suffer unto death we know we will wake at Christ's second coming to life eternal in Him. Jesus suffered unto death, suffered tremendous pain, we can expect no less suffering but in suffering we can have real hope.


The Bible tells us this about security- safety, confidence, surety.


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Psa 4:8 In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.


Psa 65:5 By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, Oh God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:


Psa 118:8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to put confidence in man.


2Co 3:3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.
2Co 3:4 And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
2Co 3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God


Eph 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Eph 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
Eph 3:10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Eph 3:11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Eph 3:12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
Eph 3:13 Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.
Eph 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
Eph 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
Eph 3:16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
Eph 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18 may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Eph 3:19 and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
Eph 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Eph 3:21 unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.


Heb 3:14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end


Isa 38:14 Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.


Heb 7:22 by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.


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Our security, real security, the ONLY security we have is found in God, not mankind or anything mankind can offer or possess. Heavenly treasures are the only treasures that mean a single thing. All our earthly treasures exist for only a short while for us- though they mostly live on after us in the hands of others very seldom do others hold our temporal treasures in their hands and cherish them the way we did. Leaving the gift of a life's memory pointing to heavenly treasures is more valuable by far than leaving a multitude of things to someone but in our day and age, in our sin-twisted way we find that hard to believe. May God help us all.


By the mercy and grace of our Lord and Savior, now and forever in Him.


Amen.