"God's Security"

"Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise Thee, O God my God." (Psalms 43:4) I don't care what kind of security you think that you might have, if your security is not in God, then you are not secure at all; everything that you have, including your life, will be lost, and there is absolutely nothing that you will be taking with you to the grave. How easy it is for us to get caught up in trusting wealth or even our own source of income, as if there could never be anything wrong with our finances, or the job that we have will always be there. That kind of security is considered to be false hope, as in, hope that does not pay off in the long run. If ever we needed to have security that does not fail, today is that day, because everything is being weighed in a balance, and we are being taken further and further into a life of charging our future; sooner or later our debt will need to be settled. On that note, there is the other issue of putting off for tomorrow what we should be doing today, and that is getting right with God! Those five foolish virgins that did not have oil in their lamps, did not have the oil because they did not care to have the oil continually in their lamps; they just kept putting off getting their lamps full, and He came at a time when they were unprepared. The oil is must likely a representation of the Holy Spirit, and we will need to be filled with the Holy Spirit at His coming, or we will not be prepared for our departure; at the time of His coming, it will be too late, because it will happen in a twinkling of an eye, which is pretty much the speed of light; much too fast for there even to be a consideration, let alone for someone to change their heart... "Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." (1 Corinthians 15:51-58)