A Sense of Security

Father God, what gives me a sense of security? What makes me feel safe and secure? What makes me feel threatened? Lord, today begins Lent. A time for soul searching and repentance. A time for reflection. My sacrifice is to identify the things in my life that I worry about. Things that threaten my sense of security. A loss of income, my job,  a loved one, my health. All of these things I have some control over but not total control over. How do I contribute to my own unhappiness, my own jealousy, my own anger. I have to learn to live in the present and to cherish the moments that God has given me. Do not worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself. I can do nothing about the plans that shaping my life in the world. That which I can change for the good, I will change. That which I have no control over, I will try to let go of and release it back to God. I want to know what will happen. I want to know the plans that God has for me. I want to know what is in store for me. Lord must everything be a mystery. Must it always be unknown?  Lord how do I know what is the right thing to do? Should I stay, should I go, should I try something totally new and different? What's the right thing to do? Where is your voice in this process? That is where the forty days and forty nights come in. Meditate on the word day and night. Allow God to influence my decisions. Recognize God's influence. Know that it is God and not my will that is coming through. I pray that I can have a sense of security that whatever happens, I am secure in God. My timing, my expectations seems to be off in all areas of my life. I seek God's influence and understanding. No one knows the day or the hour. Give me a sense of security in my decisions for my future Lord. Help me to make the right decision when it comes to you Lord.  I pray that I am not found lacking.

Matthew 24:36-39

The Day and Hour Unknown

    ³⁶ “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,^[a] but only the Father. ³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.