Blessed Assurance

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
BLESSED ASSURANCE
Prov 10:30
30 The righteous will never be uprooted,
but the wicked will not remain in the land.
NIV
Is this repetitive? How many ways does God want to say this? Surely he must think I am not getting it or maybe he knows I get it but wants to make sure those who are classified as wicked get it. The thing is I don’t think they are reading it but I am alone with all the others who would fit in the category of the righteous. So I have to see this as a great promise for me and my fellow believers. I shall never be taken from my place in Christ. I shall remain as a tree planted by the stream of living water bearing much fruit. I will never have to worry in the times of drought or when the heat comes, my leaves shall remain green. There is nothing in the world which can cause me to worry, be anxious, fret, or depressed. I will remain blessed, happy, content, fulfilled, satisfied and in fellowship with God. Nothing can tear me from the palm of his hand. When much of the world is screaming “Buy gold, it is the only thing that will save you from the pending financial disaster”, “Gold is the only security for your future”, and all the other slogans, I know the real truth. I shall never be uprooted, but all those who look to gold for their security will not remain in this land. God is the only secure source for my future, both here on this earth and the one to come. I shall have a place in the new earth firmly planted because of my God. But those who refuse to see him as the only true God, and the only source for a secure future, will not have a place in the new city on the new earth. Life is so good be firmly rooted in Christ. I am at peace with God and what could be any better? Well, God is at peace with me! I cannot imagine what it would be like to be at war with God, and have him be at war with me. I know I would lose big time, I would not be able to remain in the land. But I will, because a peace treaty has been signed, at the cross and now I will never be uprooted. I have a blessed assurance.