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 Security – Ephesians 2:14

There is a foundationary need in all humanity, a deep-seated hunger for security and peace. That essential part of being fully human was lost to all of us when Adam and Eve chose to believe the satanic lie that they could find wholeness and meaning in life apart from God. They were not told to deny the existence of God, to cease believing that God was there, but to simply believe that He did not matter. Humanity was plunged into a darkness so profound that we were deceived into believing that our “darkness” was actually “light”…enlightenment.

People have, since then, measured security and peace by attempting to have everyone around them conform to how they believe others should think and act in order to be secure and peaceful. That demand that others be conformed into our image has been the ground of wars, racism, slaughters and atrocities beyond comprehension being perpetrated upon other humans. We have been deceived into thinking and acting as if wholeness is something we can created and master.

However, true security will never be the fruit of human effort. It is a sovereign work of God. True security and peace personally, in a family system of relationships, or even globally cannot come from everyone else conforming to how I think they should think and act. That essential security and peace hungered after by all, whether they are conscious of it or not, comes from being conformed to the image and likeness of Jesus Christ by the Power of the Holy Spirit. It can come from no one and nowhere else.

It is only in surrendering all of life to the Author of Life, Jesus Christ, that one can become fully alive again, fully human. Only being forgiven by God, rescued by God, redeemed by God, and restored to God in Christ Jesus can one begin to understand and live in that security and peace than come from God alone. Only then does that hunger become satisfied at last. God alone gives true peace and He, Himself, is our security and ground of being. You can be sure, secure and at peace. Are you?

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