Security is an erroneous perception of reality. What is security but the idea or feeling that I will be free from risk, danger, doubt, anxiety, illness, and fear knowing everything that every tomorrow after and all days forever will be peace, happiness, and goodness? Absolute security is a fallacious reality that the blessed Christ, apostles, prophets, and King David never experienced. What precept exists to convince me that I will be different than anyone else in the eternity of human existence?
“When I felt secure, I said, ‘I will never be shaken.'” Oh, what a fool that believed that! David remembers his presumptuous life belief. Even though the Lord God creator of all established his Mount Zion throne it never meant he was secure in the happily forever after. As he wrote in previous psalms the Lord hid his face and he was dismayed. Inward trembling was his new reality. Mercy (hanan in Hebrew) cries consumed his day and night.
Worrying is as erroneous a perception of reality as security. “…do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? … Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” (Matthew 6:25, 27)
Is living in the moment a possible escape from remaining in the unchangeable past or focused on the vague uncontrollable future? Only if the moment is in the one who said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12) So no matter what is now and will be next the only thing that is unchanging it the light of life and that light is Christ Jesus, the light of man. (John 1) May he be my true reality forever more.
