Security

I start my woman's small group tonight going through the book Naked Before Jesus. I'm only on chapter one but i already love it.

In the first chapter we had to pick 3 characteristics of God we wanted to study. And i realized mine all had something in common.

security.


What woman doesn't long for security?


Over the past several years i've longed for security and tried to find it in multiple places.
Food
Friends
Husband
Work
Family

The security i've long for isn't the "I feel safe here" type security.
It's the type of security in myself where i know no matter who fails around me, whether my husband remembers to tell me i'm beautiful, or a patient at work tells me i did a good job, or my kids like my food i made-- I know without a doubt i am perfectly and wonderfully held in my fathers arms.

I thought in the last few years i've made progress on this. But looking at the words i've chosen i guess it's as ever present in my mind as ever.  Which isn't a bad thing.

I can say now, as i've been steadily working on this the past 2 years at least, that my security is in Jesus. I still get my hopes and desires dashed by other people i choose to put my hopes in, but that's my fault, not theirs. They are only human.

Do you search for security in the wrong places?
Do you place undo hope in things, people, or desires when those feelings should be focused on Jesus?

Just some more wednesday thoughts....
Let me know what you think.