The Perfect Heavenly Security System

Across the world, particularly North America, the pursuit of security is a heralded and important virtue.  In fact, in America, security is massive industry.  But is our pursuit of security at odds with our Christianity? To put it more directly, does God want us to be seeking security apart from faith in Him?  The unequivocal answer is: NO.  God wants to be our source of security.

At the onset, in needs to be said that security refers to a sense, a feeling, a tenor, or an aura of safety.  Thus, when we speak of security we are discussing that which deals with safety, not the reality of safety, but the abstract of safety, the feeling of being safe.  The pertinent question to ask then is: what or where or who is the supposed to be believers' security?  The answer is God.  Plainly and simply, the Holy Lord Almighty is to be our source for security.

There is, then, a direct tie between dependence on the Lord which is worship and our proclivities towards personally ensuring security which is pride and unbelief.  The issue, at its root, is an issue of trust: do we trust the Lord to keep us secure?  After the trust issue is settled, the conversation the search for security stems from fear, a general fear or uneasiness that we wish to overcome by putting security measures in place.  If those security precautions are to protect that which is given from God, we might be taking authority away from the Lord and placing in something that is obviously less-than.  Perhaps some questions would serve to challenge our well-tread conceptions of security.

What makes us secure?  Where and what is the source of our security?  If it stems from physical means or temporal things, are we depending on someone or something other than God?   What are we afraid of?  If it is not God, is this fear serving God or ourselves? Is our fear outside of God's control? Does the rationality of our fear matter at all in light of God?

The point here is not to be provocative but challenging.  These are real and important questions to ask throughout our walk with the Lord.  In truth, we should only place our security in Him; He is to be our sole and only source of security in this world.  We will rely on Him and Him alone to provide but also to protect.  Moreover, any fear we could possibly have should always pale in comparison to the fear of the Lord, as in nothing is more fearful than not depending on God!  Let us then depend on the Lord!