Our February focus has been around IDENTITY. Living Triumphantly Through Christ begins with knowing who we are. We began with belonging. We moved to being chosen, known, and named. And now we arrive at SECURITY.
As parts of Mexico faces unprecedented public violence, public commentary has been consumed with conversations about safety. I began to contemplate the difference between safety and security. Here is where I landed: Safety is external and circumstantial. Security is internal and rooted in what we trust.
This was the lesson the disciples learned in the storm. In Mark 4:35-41, the disciples asked if Jesus cared that they were perishing. The same question could be asked today. DOES GOD CARE? When external safety is threatened, internal security seems compromised. But security is not the absence of storms. It is confidence in who is in the storm with us. Paul provides unmistakable clarity in his Epistle to the Romans 8:38–39:
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Black history teaches us that security has rarely come from institutions. It has not come from politics or economics. For the ancestors, security was rooted in faith, in community, and in a God who kept them when the world did not.
We may not have calm waters, predictable circumstances nor stable conditions but we are still secure. Our security is rooted in Our Faithful God!
As we continue on this journey TOWARD GOD, may we never forget this blessed assurance.
The Journey Continues,
