"Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." - Psalm 20:7
I was quickly struck to the heart as I read this devotional by Elisabeth Elliot this morning. The part that hit me the hardest was when E.E. talks about how we sometimes disobey God because we think it is impossible to do what He asks. But my doubt or fear in a potential task that He is calling me to, only reveals my lack of trust in our great God and the selfishness in my own heart about not wanting to experience inconvenience in completing that task. -Lord, help me to remember that the only true security I will find, can only be found in my Heavenly Father. The world offers illusions, but You offer the real thing. Help me to fully place my life in Your sovereign hands.-
The Lust for Security
to be pilgrims and strangers on the earth, which is what Christians are meant to be, it is incongruous for us to continue to insist upon the sort of security the world tries to guarantee. Our security lies not in protecting ourselves from suffering, but in putting ourselves fully into the hands of God. The desire for physical and material security makes us sly and hard. No. We must be like little children. The child in its father's arms is not worried. It lies quietly at rest because it trusts its father.
We disobey sometimes because we say it is impossible to do what God asks. Impossible? Perhaps what we mean is impossible to do that and keep our security, impossible to obey without tremendous cost, or at least tremendous risk. Where, then, will we find safety? Is it likely that we will find it elsewhere than in the arms of the Father?
Teach me to rest in your everlasting arms. Make me know that all other security is illusion.
to be pilgrims and strangers on the earth, which is what Christians are meant to be, it is incongruous for us to continue to insist upon the sort of security the world tries to guarantee. Our security lies not in protecting ourselves from suffering, but in putting ourselves fully into the hands of God. The desire for physical and material security makes us sly and hard. No. We must be like little children. The child in its father's arms is not worried. It lies quietly at rest because it trusts its father.
We disobey sometimes because we say it is impossible to do what God asks. Impossible? Perhaps what we mean is impossible to do that and keep our security, impossible to obey without tremendous cost, or at least tremendous risk. Where, then, will we find safety? Is it likely that we will find it elsewhere than in the arms of the Father?
Teach me to rest in your everlasting arms. Make me know that all other security is illusion.
~Elisabeth Elliot~
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