“The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe” (18:10). This proverb is about where our security lies. The following one is an observation about false security: “The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it an unscalable wall” (18:11). The level of peace you enjoy in your life depends entirely on the quality of your security. However financially secure you may feel, that security is far below what we require to live in genuine peace. Wealth cannot protect you from the greatest misfortunes in life. The greatest misfortune in life is the wasting of life itself. Better to die young than to live long and waste your years. God puts a pathway before us and our security is in walking with him down that pathway. On that pathway the future is entirely secure. That does not mean that there will not be hardship along that path. Our security is not that we will not suffer, but that we will not miss out on the full life that God has for us. The pathway of God inevitably goes through the “valley of the shadow of death” at times and we rarely know why. Often, however, it is here in the dark places that we see the light most clearly and we emerge the richer for the experience. Your security is not in what you have but in who you are with. When you walk with God, he will be your shield and your assurance. He assures you today that you will know fullness of life if you walk with him.
Commit yourself again to walking in God’s path.
Read Proverbs 18:9-24
