Secure, Because There Is Hope.

Job 11:18  And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope…

Secure- because there is hope.

Who doesn't want to be secure? Insecurities cause us discomfort. We worry when we aren't secure. What may make one person secure however, might not make another secure. Some people are secure in themselves and their own abilities to provide for whatever they might need. Others are very insecure about themselves and their own abilities to provide for themselves. Sometimes due to illness, infirmities, age and the like we are left to feel extremely insecure about our lives and our ability to provide for ourselves. When we think in terms of our temporary life is it any wonder people are insecure? Even the most secure person can be thrown for a loop by the unexpected. This temporary life leaves us with a feeling of insecurity because there are so many unknowns. We do NOT know what tomorrow may bring to us. We plan our lives, we imagine how our lives are meant to be, but all too often they don't turn out anything like what we had in mind.

We can be secure in hope. When we place our hope in Christ, we are planning on a life eternal. We aren't guaranteeing ourselves anything in this temporary life when we make Christ our hope, not a single thing. With Christ our hope Christ is our guarantee in eternity.  I may have a temporary life filled with all manner of insecurities- legitimate insecurities. I may have no money, no food and no way to get either. I may go one, two, three, four days without any food, I may actually starve to death, but I can still have my security in Christ. In this temporary life anything can happen and has happened to people who love God with all their hearts, horrific things. We need to understand that it is life eternal where we find our truest hope, not the life we live now.

While we live in very uncertain times the tendency to feel insecure, to feel fear will be very, very great. We need to find our security in hope, and that hope is in Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR who died for us, so we may have the hope of Him eternally. No matter what comes our way, let us never lose our faith in our eternal Savior.

Psa 43:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.