Secure in Him

Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me;

Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, to the place where You dwell.

Then I will go to the altar of God, my joy and my delight

I will praise You with the lyre, O God, my God.

-Psalm 43:3-4

I have a confession.  Although I know in my heart that my hope and my joy are found in the Lord alone, I allow my mood to be governed by everything else.  A coworker's comments, a friend's email, the project I'm working on, the guy I'm thinking about--- literally everything but God determines whether I'm happy or sad, nervous or excited, afraid or fearless.  My attitude hinges completely upon others and my circumstances.  (I'm hoping you're nodding along with me at this point--- if not, tell me your secret to tuning out life!)  

Now I'm not saying that I'm supposed to be impossibly cheery all the time.  Yes I am Christian, but I'm also human, and while my mood may change, deep down, at the very soul level, I stand on the promises of God.  What worries me is that, when I allow my circumstances to control my emotions, am I disregarding my security in the Lord?  It seems to me that if I am truly standing secure in Him, I am fully aware that I have been made new and can, in the word of Hebrews 12:1, "throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles."

 

It is my hope that you and I will turn from those things that so easily distract us and control our attitudes.  We are children of God, and our Father is our joy and our delight!  Delight yourself in Him today for in Him alone can we find security.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

-Hebrews 12:1-3