
KEY SCRIPTURE. Isaiah 41:10, Genesis 6:14-15, Genesis 6:17
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of:
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
RELEVANCE
Christian security is one of the most important topics for believers.
I don't mean locking the doors before going to bed at night, although that is important these days, but in who or what we place our sense of security.
I am raising the subject early in the new year to get us all thinking about the depth of our faith and particularly our responses to the minor decisions we make daily that affect our overall sense of security in Christ. Do they increase or decrease it?
Using one drop at a time, a vessel will sooner or later be filled with water. It can also empty the same way in reverse. Similarly, our faith can decrease one error in judgment at a time. We either make small, faithful decisions or faithless ones. Whichever ones we favour compound over time—thus building faith upon faith or doubt upon doubt, rendering our account either full or empty.
Each decision has a value that either adds to our spiritual account or subtracts from it. Faithless responses may seem insignificant at the time and hardly noticeable, but they are progressive. They add up, whittling away at our trust.
Let's consider a person who has signed up for a gym membership. It's not uncommon at this time of year.
Workout after workout, the results are not immediate. They are invisible at the time but not at the end. The end shows whether you have been working the plan or not. It is compounding. Each faithful or faithless decision builds on the previous one.
Again, if a brick is a faithless decision, one brick may seem insignificant, but over time, it becomes a wall of faithless decisions preventing the flow of the Holy Spirit.
At those times when Noah inserted a small beam in his Ark or sealed a gap with pitch in faith, it was insignificant. But then, on one particular day in the future, the Ark was finished, and the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (Genesis 7:1)
Noah's security was in God, whether going through the plans, collecting the components, building the structure or abiding in peace in that rudderless (God was the rudder), handmade craft on the turbulent seas, bumping into hills and mountains. Every small act was righteous and faithful.
Whether we choose to place our security in God or follow a life of fear, the results of each decision will seem unnoticeable at the time. But they impact our big choices. We then find whether our decisions have built or eroded our structure. Habukkuk 2:2: For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. In the end, all of our choices speak. Sooner or later, our faith decisions will become clear, whether we have chosen security or fear.
Revelation 17:14 is one of those end-time verses that highlight the necessity of clinging to Christ through thick and thin regardless of the trouble or trauma. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
In 2025, let's continue walking in God's will, praising the Lord and making faithful choices in our love for Christ.
PRAYER
Precious Father, I thank you that, eventually, our invisible choices and works produce results. This shows me that I must be aware of what my answer will do every time I am presented with a choice.
Photo by Liane Metzler
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