“I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” Isaiah 46:3-4

It’s been approximately 24,238 days, or 581,712 hours, since I was born and this verse sparked reality in my life. And for all those ticks of a clock, life has been moving toward…something. Yesterday was a landmark period that I decided to call ‘Social Security Day.’ The day I qualified, and could receive, the benefits of my years of labor.

I was a little nervous going through the application process. After giving them my information and number, the system fired back a verification code to my phone, which I input into a popped up form, and I was in! It wasn’t like I was introducing myself! ‘They’ have been keeping tabs on me my whole life and know more about ME than even ‘I’ remember. But I needed to prove that I was THAT GUY! Since fraud is a big problem!

There are folks out there who will lie, pretending they are me, in order to take the benefits for which I’ve been working. ‘I’ have a responsibility to keep my record clean and private, just as ‘they’ do. Pretending can get REALLY messy at this stage. But as long as everything is in order and info provided matches the record stored, benefits will be paid. But I still can’t figure out if those benefits were earned or owed!

God was around LONG before He got around to creating me. He knew I was coming though…and He made provisions. The Bible tells me that He upheld and carried me the whole way of my life. And that He will sustain me even after it. But an ‘IF’ is implied!!!!

God expects me to stay in His care and remain in His character. When I verify I am His by right, and apply His benefits to myself BY CHOICE, God blesses me with Himself. My choice is to remain His and be the guy He created me to be, or fraudulently distort His creation to become what He didn’t intend.

I can say that I know a LOT of ‘gray headed’ folks who love God. AND I can tell you that THEY have verified that God’s system works…EVERY TIME! He hasn’t ever let me down so I shall continue to bank on HIS SECURITY! Not because He OWES me, but because He promised.

Are YOU secure?