Today I had an interesting experience at a local bank which reminded me of the security we have in God. The missions team of Florida Christian College is preparing for a trip to Cambodia next week to help with the Rapha House in that region. In preparing for the trip, our staff had to go to the local bank and make a sizable withdraw of cash to be used for some of the expenses of the trip. I will not share with you the amount but suffice to say it was a rather LARGE amount of cash.
To receive the cash we had to show ID, share our social security number and tell our occupation. 20 minutes later the teller called us to a side door and gave us the funds, in get this; a brown paper bag, stapled at the top. It was kind of comical if you think about it, we were walking out the door of the bank with a very large amount of money and our only security was a brown paper bag and two staples! As we returned to the car we began to laugh about the situation. Anyone could have grabbed that bag from the two of us and had a fantastic shopping spree at Best Buy. Now I know the reason they put it in a brown paper bag was so it would not draw attention to it, but I thought it was funny that we were walking around with such a large sum of money with no security, but a couple staples.
Unfortunately, people are walking through life with very little security as well. They live as if they are going to live forever, with no thought about how they spend eternity. For Christ followers our security is found in Christ. In the book of John, Jesus told his followers of the security he provides. Look at some of these references.
As you can see from reading these verses, Jesus offers us real security and it is far better than a couple of staples and paper bag.
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