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“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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