Wednesday, 4th Week: Our Security Is Based On God's Love
"But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me." Can a
woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even
these may forget, yet I will not forget you." Isaiah 49:14-15
What is the basis of our security? When we start thinking about that question, we may give
many answers: success, money, friends, property, popularity, family, connections,
insurance, and so on. We may not always think that any of these forms the basis of our
security, but our actions or feelings may tell us otherwise. When we start losing our
money, our friends, or our popularity, our anxiety often reveals how deeply our sense of
security is rooted in these things.
A spiritual life is a life in which our security is based not in any created things,
good as they may be, but in God, who is everlasting love. We probably will never be
completely free from our attachment to the temporal world, but if we want to live in that
world in a truly free way, we'd better not belong to it.
"What did the most recent crisis in your life reveal about the basis for your
security?"
Henri Nouwen