Can I ask you a question: Do you have “crutches” that you lean on?  Relationships, close friend, spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, reputation, popularity, job, finances, or health? If you find yourself saying, “I don’t know what I would do without….  I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have…” you might be leaning on a crutch. A crutch can help you get through a hard time, but a crutch was never meant to be permanent.If I break my ankle and walk with a crutch, you would understand that.  It might take six weeks for my ankle to heal, but eventually you would expect me to walk on my own.  At some point you would expect me to get rid of the crutch.  If three years later I still have the crutch, you know there’s a problem.If we are not careful we tend to hold on too tightly to things and people.  We tend to put our trust in things that are visible, you know, those things that are right in front of us.  We crave a sense of personal security.  We say, “As long as I have this…or that, I know I’ll be okay.”The danger here is that these crutches tend to take the place of God in our life.  Instead of our trust being in God, we place our trust in people and things.  This is idolatry and that’s a problem.  God wants us to find our security completely in Him.  Everything else is temporary and somewhat unreliable.  What would you do if suddenly the things in your life that bring you security were gone?Proverbs 3:5-6 - “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”What keeps us from trusting God with all of our hearts?  Our real problem is that we have misplaced our security.  We find security in things that are temporary. So often these things fail and disappoint us.  Instead, we need to learn to put our security in God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.ILL: Story of Randy Reid, a 34 year old welder who was working near the top of a newly constructed water tower outside of Chicago.  He slipped and fell 110 feed to the ground.  He barely missed hitting rocks and debris and landed in a six-foot pile of soft sand near the base of the tower.  Miraculously he only suffered a bruised lung.  Ironically, when the paramedics were carrying him to the ambulance, he kept asking, “you aren’t going to drop me are you?”  The guy falls off an 11 story water tower and lives, only to be concerned about a stretcher ride three feet above the ground.Are you questioning God’s ability to carry you?  Life brings us much uncertainty: the health of our marriage, sky rocketing college tuition, aging parents, the insecurity of our jobs, the loneliness of being single, rejection of people we thought were our friends, depression, and the list goes on.We are learning that people and things will come and go.  Only God offers lasting security. When you lose something in your life that was a great source of security, you have a tremendous opportunity to stop trusting in the things the world offers up for security, and you begin to learn to trust God.True security is only found in Jesus Christ.  No matter how many friends you have, no matter how much money you have in the bank, without Jesus you have no security.Today’s Challenge: Are you willing to completely trust Jesus with your life? With your health? With your family? With your future?Visit the website: 5MinuteDiscipleship.comFollow on social:Facebook.com/5minutediscipleshipInstagram.com/5minutediscipleship

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