Are You Secure?

[269 words] What spells security for you? A substantial bank account? Good insurance? Tenure? An alarm system? A strong military? Reliable leadership? A storm shelter? Obviously the idea of security has many applications in a variety of circumstances. Have you ever associated security with a peg? Probably not. But that is precisely what Ezra does. God’s people had fallen into sin and Ezra offered a prayer of penitence in which he praised God for “a brief moment of grace” and having provided a “peg in His holy place” (Ezra 9:8; NASB). This peg is “a nail or peg stuck into the wall, to hang any kind of domestic utensils upon” (Keil & Delitzsch, 119). Of all the features and furnishings of God’s temple, a peg had to be among the most insignificant. And that is precisely the point. Security is found with God, in His holy place, and even the…