Security

The word "security" has become very prominent in our world over the past twelve years (especially since 2001). Each of us are interested in being secure as we move through our daily schedules and accomplish our daily goals. We want to believe that our children are in a secure place when they head off to school as well as believing that our workplace environment is a secure venue in which we work. But we need to realize that there is no guarantee to complete security regardless of how much that we desire that to be true. BUT we realize that we can place our hope and confidence in the "true" God who is in charge of our daily lives. He is the unchanging Shepherd and we can depend on His presence to remain the same regardless of the circumstances that we are facing at any given moment in our lives.  Take a moment and read this illustration that Max Lucado has shared in one of his writings.

 

When author Lloyd Douglas attended college, he lived in a boardinghouse with a retired music professor who lived on the first floor. Douglas would stick his head in the door and ask, “Well, what’s the good news?” The old man would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of his chair and say, “That’s middle C.  It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now.  The tenor upstairs sings flat. The piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, that is middle C!”

 

You and I need a middle C.  A still point in a turning world.  An unchanging Shepherd. A God who can still the storm.  A Lord who can declare the meaning of life.  And according to David in Psalm 23—you have one. The Lord is your shepherd!  He is your middle C!