For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3
Caroline Sandell Berg grew up in a pastor's home in Sweden. When she was still a young girl, she witnessed her father drown in a tragic accident, but her faith remained unshaken. Known as the “Fanny Crosby of Sweden” she wrote more than 650 hymns, included one titled “Security.”
More secure is no one ever, than the loved ones of the Savior.
Not yon star on high abiding, nor the bird in home-nest hiding.
God His own doth tend and nourish, in His holy courts they flourish;
Like a father kind He spares them, in His loving arms He bears them.
Neither life nor death can ever, from the Lord His children sever,
For His love and deep compassion, comforts them in tribulation.
Little flock, to joy then yield thee! Jacob’s God will ever shield thee;
Rest secure with this Defender, at His will all foes surrender.
The world around us may be filled with doubt and uncertainty and trouble, but as children of God we have complete safety in Him. That does not mean that we will never endure hardship or suffering or loss. It does mean that we will never be forsaken or abandoned. God will be with us every day of our lives. We also do not need to fear the future. Our eternal destiny is already settled, secured by the promise of Jesus Christ.
Thomas Brooks said, “Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ’s charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity.”