Security

I heard church planter, Tim Keller tell this story...its good food for thought...and should put our priorities into perspective.

Keller tells a story of a friend who is a University Prof. One day the Prof gets a phone call from a mom of one of the girls he taught.

She was very upset.

You see, her and her husband sent their little girl to University so she could get her degree and then her 'Masters'.

But something happened.

Their daughter ended up meeting someone in University that changed her plans.

She met Jesus...and nothing was the same again.

After this girl met the Lord Jesus she felt called to become a missionary and decided to follow this call.

Mom wanted to tell the Prof, who was instrumental in introducing her to Jesus, that she was very unhappy.

You see, mom and dad wanted their little girl to get her degree and masters so that she could have some security in life.

The Prof listen to mom's complaint and then responded.

He said something like this "Mrs. Johnston, we are all riding on this piece of rock, flying millions of miles an hour throughout space. And even if we don't collide into something out there we all know that we walk around in life with our own personal trap door beneath us...one day that door is going to open and we are going to leave this life...and we are going to fall into the everlasting arms of Jesus, the Creator and Sustainer of heaven and earth...or we will fall into the arms of our...Masters degree?"

Keller was not dissing degrees or masters or Ph.d's...he was simply reminding us that if we are putting our eternal security in money, job, school, rrsp's or anything other then Jesus then we are making a horrible, tragic mistake.

Only Jesus can give us true security.