“For the LORD is your security. He will keep your foot from being caught in a trap” ( Proverbs 34:6)
Job security is one of the most important desire for most workers. Indeed, it is for these reasons why many would prefer public sector jobs to private sector as these tend to have better job security. The process of laying off a government worker, including termination, is far more complicated than for say one in a small scale enterprise.
One may have such a cushy guaranteed job and feel secure but truth is every job has certain elements of insecurity. Say one is suddenly incapacitated and unable to work anymore. Wars do erupt causing services to be disrupted and what seems once a secure job is suddenly in suspense.
But there is a security that can’t be moved. It is our security in Christ Jesus. The Psalmist says, “I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken” ( Psalm 16:8). Once Job was a tycoon: “Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East” ( Job 1:3). But then in a moment he lost everything ( vv 13-8).
Job would find he could no longer have security in his property, including his closest friends. He lost his once good health knocked “with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head” ( Job 2:7). His wife cried, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” ( vv 9).
But Job knew where his ultimate security lay. It was neither in his property, health or friends but in the Lord who would in good time redeem him! “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning” ( Job 42:12).
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, it is easy to feel secure in our jobs, property, health or friends but ultimate security is only found in you, and may you help us put all our trust in you, this I pray in Jesus’ name.
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08/05/2024 - 09/05/2024 All day“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2 Corinthians 9:15)
The culture of sharing gifts runs through scriptures and is at the heart of the Gospel. Upon realizing that Jesus Christ had been born the three wise main did not just go empty handed. “On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh” (Mathew 2:11).
When Jacob decided to return to his country, he went with gifts to soften the heart of his twin brother Esau, whom he had left maddened at him for various wrongs. “Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau: 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys” ( Genesis 32: 13-15). The reason was, Jacob thought, “I will try to appease him by sending gifts ahead of me. When I see him in person, perhaps he will be friendly to me.” So the gifts were sent on ahead, while Jacob himself spent that night in the camp” (vv 2—21).
Esau was already a wealthy man and had no need of the gifts presented. But Jacob pleaded with him. “Please take this gift I have brought you, for God has been very gracious to me. I have more than enough.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau finally accepted the gift” (Genesis 33: 11). This symbol of good touched Esau, brightened his heart, burying the old acrimonious relation.
Taking after these two instances believers should be in the habit of sharing gifts. We should visit each other not empty handed but like the wise men with gifts, not so much that those we are gifting are lacking, but as a way of blessing them. Proverbs 11:25-26, says, “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.”
Most importantly we bless each other with gifts because we have received the most important gift there is in life, the gift of salvation. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, today I thank you for the most precious gift of all that you gave me of eternal life through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and so I pray that I may not hesitate to share this gift and bless those with as much whom you enable me to meet, this I pray in Jesus’ name.
