Never Mine To Hold

There is something going on in our country that is hard to even explain.
I'm not sure if "disease" is the proper word, but it's the word I will use for the time being.
A disease is rampant in our country, and that disease is the quest for security.
Everywhere we turn, people are doing everything they can to be secure.
People slave away at their jobs that they don't even like to obtain money so they can be "secure."
People spend money on insurance so they can be secure if something bad happens.
People choose to spend their time to "ensure" the security of tomorrow.

But there is a huge problem behind all of this!
Why do we spend so much time making tomorrow "safer" when we are not even guaranteed our next breath!?
Why do we care so much about "security" when that "security" could be snatched from us at any moment. At any given moment, all of our plans, hopes, and dreams could be utterly destroyed by the mere whisper of God.

I'm scared to say it, but I think too many of us are more concerned about maintaining something we call "security" than doing what God really wants us to be doing. We are consumed with a mirage, the mirage of "safety" and "security", and it is destroying us from the inside out. Our culture produces people that have conformed to the culture. Our churches produce people that look very much like the world, they just cuss less, and don't go to bars as much as the world. What kind of a Christianity is that? What kind of life are we living? Why are we so stuck in this rut?

Perhaps the reason that we don't have any big dreams is that we stopped listening to God long ago. Perhaps the reason we CAN'T obey God's voice now is that we've said NO to Him for far too long.
I could talk about Abraham a lot, but essentially the point is this...there were several major points of decision in his life and each got progressively harder. The reason he was able to say YES to God at every point, was that he said yes the first time. Maybe we have missed that. Maybe we missed the first yes to God, and that has crippled us.
How do we dig out?

We have to go back to the beginning.
Back to the simplicity of following Christ.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
We must go back to the beginning, confess that we have messed up, and commit to saying YES to Him no matter the cost to our "security."
We have to break out of the mold of American Christianity, and embrace His hands.

"The freedom of Christ is this: no more molds, just His hands."

We must break out of the cycle of conformity before it chokes out our dreams and passions completely.

Lord, let your cross be the blazing center of our lives, let our identity be found in You, and help us to say YES to YOU no matter the cost to our "supposed security."
We are but a vapor, I want to stop living for "security."