AIRPORT SECURITY VS. GOD SECURITY

AIRPORT SECURITY VS GOD’S SECURITY 7/23/12 The other day I was at the Charlotte Airport on my way home from an amazing conference. I was exhausted from the conference and I just wanted to get through security and read one of the books that I bought. Now, let me just tell you that this was only my second time at the airport, my first was a couple days prior when I flew from Orlando to Charlotte. I was standing in line to go through security and I made sure that I took my watch off and took my laptop out of my bag. I didn’t know that I had to do that when I left Orlando, so I held the process up by having to pull my laptop out of my bag. I put all my stuff up on the conveyor belt and stepped into the little X-RAY type machine. When I went to step out the man at the end told me to stand in this one spot and not to move. I stood there and then was told that I needed to be taken to another room to be patted down. When you tell someone that doesn’t like to be touched that they are going to have to be patted down it does something to their brain. I felt as if everything were going blurry as the anxiety began to set in. Three women took me into the room and told me what they were going to do and I told them that they were not going to touch me in the places that they wanted to touch me. After some debate more security officers came and a couple of police and told me that if I did not allow them to search me then I would be arrested for being “noncompliant” and “suspicious.” Today as I was reflecting on this event and how the airport security wanted to search me to make sure I was “clean.” I began to think about how God wants to search us. He doesn’t need to pat us down, but He does want to search our heart and our lives. He wants to make sure that our lives are free from all the junk that will hurt us and others. There are many times that we want to hide from God though because we don’t want Him to search our hearts in fear of what He may find. When I was at the airport I was not afraid of what they might find, but it was more so embarrassing and degrading to me. I know that there are times in my own life when I want to hide or run from God because of knowing that what He is going to find is embarrassing. We live with such sin in our life, but sooner or later it will be exposed whether we want it to or not. Just like I had to be searched at the airport God is going to continue to search my heart, mind and soul. The thing we need to think about though is if we would be more comfortable with airport security searching us or God? It should be our desire for God to search us. Psalm 139:23 says, “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.” This verse should be our prayer. We should want God to search us and purify us! Oh and it turns out the reason they had to search me was because of the “jewels” on my shirt.