True Security

“I warned you when you felt secure,

    but you said, ‘I will not listen!’

This has been your way from your youth;

    you have not obeyed me.”

Jeremiah 22:21

  

Security can sometimes be harmful!

How?

When we ‘feel’ we are secure it is easy to think that we do not need God.

We become complacent and self-assured in our security.

We are confident, even though it is a misplaced confidence, that our security was created and will be sustained by our own hands.

God says, through His prophet Jeremiah, that He had warned Judah and its’ leaders when they ‘felt’ secure.

True and lasting security can only come from God.

He can raise up or bring down nations in a day.

Judah’s king and its’ leaders ‘felt’ secure and in that false sense of security they told God, in essence, ‘We will not listen to your words of impending destruction because we ‘feel’ secure!’

Feelings are very unreliable foundations on which to build.

Especially when those feelings are contrary to what God is saying.

You can trust your feelings or you can trust Gods’ Word as revealed through scriptures or as spoken through His prophets.