Who can Stand?
Security has a strong attraction. I have some money in the bank and a good job. I live in a safe neighborhood and my kids go to a good school. I’d like to be a little more physically fit, but I’ve avoided any huge health problems. But am I really secure? Life’s circumstances have a way of challenging our notion of security. In life the unthinkable will descend upon us. When tragic circumstances hit we find out which things provide real security and which foundations turn out to be quick sand. The four horsemen of the apocalypse, described in Revelation, could surprise us with their practicality in assessing if our feelings of security are rooted in the right things. If we approach this text as a riddle about the future to be solved we miss the value of the questions it whispers. “I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a white ho