You are secure in God. - Esesien Ita

 This is hardly debatable. There is hardly a person who does not feel the need for security. We tend to avoid potential dangers and seek protection for the present and future. This makes us seek security in a being or object believed to be superior to us or of having superior powers to ours. A man once said, when a python in his village was killed, that their god has been killed. He believed the python to be their god. To others, that god could be a river, a rock, a tree, or other creatures or elements of nature. We doubt that there is any such thing as atheism – the belief that there is no God. That philosophy may well be the professor’s way of avoiding discussion on a topic that brings them face to face with an inescapable reality – the fact of God.

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All of us, by our very desire for good, seek out something that would provide that good, and not infrequently, that thing or being becomes adorable to us. We feel more at home or at ease with them. It could be our spouse or child, our books or clothes, our money or position, just anything that gives us that sense of being okay. We cannot give them up for a certain unseen God who may not exist after all, or at best exists only in the imagination of mental weaklings who need some spiritual crutch to move on in life! There are who reason this way, but that is unfortunate. God is not a crutch. He is our security.

While humans rationalize on the soul’s quest for answers to searching questions, there remains the fact that our souls continue to yearn for true succour. An inner void seeks to be filled. An old divine, St Augustine once said, “Our souls are restless until they find rest in God” (paraphrased). This was a man who fruitlessly sought peace in many ways, until he found what he was looking for in the true God. Indeed this has to be the final destination of all who must get it right – the true God. Who then is this true God to whom all of life must answer?

The true God is a Spirit with personality. “God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4: 24). God is not a mere force or some impersonal being. He is a most free and independent Being who expresses Himself in ways that He chooses to, unfettered and unquestioned by any other. Surely such a being deserves your trust.

The true God is eternally self-existent, having no beginning or ending, neither made nor created. “From everlasting to everlasting you are God” (Psalm 90: 2). He is, and remains the same forever, ageless, and never adding years. “You remain the same, and your years will never end” (Psalm 102: 27). Though uncreated, the true God is the Sovereign Creator, bringing into existence any and everything and being, according to His choice of type, time and in the manner He so wants, and ruling over all at His discretion. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1: 1). “You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you” (Nehemiah 9: 6)

The true God is perfect in being and acts. He is active in creation, overseeing, directing and controlling the minutest details of every single happening in all of creation, be they of humans, beasts, the botanical world, the galaxies, the tangible as well as the ethereal. No detail in all unseen and seen creation escapes his knowledge. “He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is He” (Deuteronomy 32: 4). God knows, sees and predetermines every detailed happening in creation before any of them came to be. He predetermined them to happen, not because of a foreknowledge that they would happen, but because, in His sovereignty, He has so decreed. The true God is in charge, yet is He not the cause of sin or evil. Section III, Subsection 1 of The Westminster Confession of Faith says

God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.

This means that while God is in charge of all that takes place and has in fact predetermined them, yet God is not responsible for the evil that occurs in creation. He is not, for example, responsible for the murder a murderer commits. The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world has been slain from the foundation of the world, yet God is not responsible for Judas Iscariot, the Jews, Pilate, Herod, and the Roman soldiers who contributed to the killing of the Lamb of God in time. Christ was “delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God” yet God was not responsible for “the wicked hands that took Him and crucified Him” (Acts 2: 23). God the Creator will not crash upon the will of the creature to cause the creature to act against his or her own will. The choice of doing good or evil is the creature’s. It is purely their freewill. That is the meaning of ‘… nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures.’

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God, in the exercise of His sovereign will, does not stop or curtail the liberty of second causes. Natural results will follow natural events. For example, a hard working person will succeed, while a lazy person will fail. One who contracts HIV infection will live with it. A person who is stabbed gets wounded and may die. Pregnancy will follow sex in fertile persons, whether it was of mutual consent or rape. God has power to direct any of these otherwise, and actually has in some cases, but He does not always take away the liberty or contingency of second causes, but rather allows them to run their free courses.

This true God is the ever living God. He is strong to save and keep all who come to Him by faith in Christ. The one who comes to God by faith will never be rejected. Put your trust today in God through Christ. This will secure your present and future. It will also wipe your ugly past. God will declare you righteous based on what Christ did for you on the Cross of Calvary. You will also be free from the fear of what fellow humans could do to you, because the LORD has become your salvation. Read Psalm 27. You need security for the now and for all eternity. It is all available in Christ, and it is free for the grabs! Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ today, and you shall be saved and secure. Peace be with you!