Security

If you know of Joanna Brady, J. P. Beaumont or Ali Reynolds, you have read J. A. Jance’s books. I’ve enjoyed learning of her characters and the twists and turns within her mysteries.

She also writes a blog, and her latest entry tells of computer problems. While all of us face them every once in a while, the very thought of losing fourteen chapters of her latest book is over whelming to me. All that work!! All that research!!! All that time – to create, then recreate.

It made me grateful for a number of things that confirm to us they cannot be lost. The list is limited, however, for most of what we have can be.

The correct treasures can’t be:

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: (Matthew 6:20 KJV)

Why?

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:21 KJV)

And, where should our hearts be?

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. (Mark 12:30 KJV)

This is important because He is able to keep us:

for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. (2 Timothy 1:12b KJV)

This is confirmed in many other places in the Bible, my favorite being:

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:13 KJV)

Isn’t it wonderful to know that when we place ourselves in His hands we do not have to worry about anything being lost?

Awesome, isn’t it?