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Where's Your Security?

It caught my eye, well the words in the verse did!  See if they catch yours:  When I felt secure, I said, “I will never be shaken.”  (Ps 30:6)

 

To feel secure can be quite a wonderful thing.  In feeling secure, you might feel free from danger or harm.  You might feel free from fear, care, doubt, worry or anxiety. 

 

When I looked up other versions of Psalm 30:6, I noticed some other wording that seemed to further enhance this good feeling of security:

 

  • When I was safe and secure…

 

  • When all was well with me…

 

  • When I felt safe…

 

  • When things were quiet and life was easy…

 

  • And in my prosperity…(which actually was used by most versions) 
     

And then I read more of the outcome of that feeling of security from other versions:

 

  • I thought nothing could hurt me…

 

  • Nothing can ever destroy me….

 

  • I will never fear…

 

  • I shall never be moved…(which actually was used by most versions).

 

However, when I read one particular version, I thought uh-oh, maybe I’ve been looking at this all wrong.  See what you think:  When things were quiet and life was easy, I said in arrogance, “Nothing can shake me.” 

 

Many commentators believe that the psalmist was confessing to a time when he felt so secure and so prosperous that he thought he was basically untouchable.  And in his arrogance, he probably had come to a point of trusting too much in his own abilities and not enough in God.

 

So while I was initially drawn to the verse based on the thought of experiencing that feeling of security and all that it positively entails, it looks like we can also experience a false sense of security.  That can so easily happen when we, in our arrogance, think we have everything under control!

 

It serves as a great reminder that we need to rely on God and not just on our own abilities and resources. 

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