Job 11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

Security of the believer has always been an important issue with me. It is important to me because I understand the issues of security or more accurately insecurity. Allow me if you will to explain up front, this is an emotional issue and not a spiritual one.

“How do I know I am saved?”

If we listen closely we should hear the voice of insecurity. Those of us who are strong in faith, bold in the Word and secure in our relationship will have a different approach to answering this question. We might start quoting scripture and laying out sound doctrinal viewpoints as to why Christ has done for us all that we cannot do for ourselves. This does nothing to address the issue.

If you ask yourself this question, in one form or another, I would offer you this one observation first before trying to get to the root of the problem. People who are not saved do not worry about it. The fact you are concerned is a good indicator of your heart condition.

Job 11:18 gives us good advice about security. His first point is hope. There is hope for you because you care enough to ask the honest question. You are being real about your emotions and have a desire for things to be better. His second point is environmental, dig about thee. The root of the problem is in the life you lead or the life you had before Christ. Insecurity has a basis in relationship. Somebody did not make you feel safe and secure.

The third and most vital point made is relational. If you are not in a place where you have fellowship with loving brothers and sisters in Christ that make you feel secure, you can do something about that. Fellowship should make you feel like part of the body of Christ and being a part helps ease the tensions of insecurity. It begins with sharing what you have found in digging into your environment and being real with the group. If they rally to your side you are on your way to security. If they do not……

God wants you to feel loved and secure.

Right as defined by use of an exclamation is used to indicate one’s agreement with a suggestion or to acknowledge a statement or order.

When did this become the common use definition of right? “If I agree then you are right.”

As an adjective right means morally good, justified, acceptable; true or correct as a fact.

The problem the world has with the adjective definition is that it demands a moral absolute and that takes away the individuals authority to define what is good, just and acceptable.

The moral absolute releases the right to be right to a higher authority. If you are unwilling to surrender right to a higher authority then your righteousness is nothing more than an exclamation, it carries no weight without an audience of agreement. If you cannot surrender to a higher authority right becomes a screaming match.

“But I do not believe in a higher power!”

That doesn’t make you right.

Righteousness is a noun meaning the quality of being morally right or justifiable. These two qualities both throw us back into the arena of right and submission to a higher authority. We have added another interesting word into the mix, justifiable. It means defensible which is a legal term. Now we have moved “right” into the legal arena.

This is where those refusing to surrender to a higher power have their strongest objection.

“Who are you to judge me?”

I don’t, but it begs me to ask those people how they plan on dealing with a cruel and violent world that opposes your opinion of right with a gun, a bomb and a sword? Obviously they have a different opinion of right and are willing to kill you if you do not surrender to them. Isn’t that surrendering to a higher power?

So my opinion is that I would rather surrender to the high power who says “I love you” than to the one that says “I kill you”!

Conclusions were drawn by a dictionary, not a bible.