The Folly of Trusting in Security

Like most Australians (including, I suspect, all those righteous politicians and policeman who blasted the act) I was greatly amused by the "Chaser's" successful breaching of security at the APEC meeting by simply pretending to be a legitimate motorcade. They pretended to be the Canadian delegation and passed through several checkpoints before realising that they has got well into the APEC security zone, just metres from President Bush's hotel. When they turned around they were pulled over by the police, who told them how naughty they were.

Ironically, as they pointed out, their big security stickers on the cars said clearly they were from "Chaser" and not an official delegation.

This followed another typically Aussie security breach on the day that George Bush arrived in Sydney. A couple of brothers decided to spend the day in the hotel lobby to see if they could get close to the President. So they spent the day just sitting at a table, drinking innocuously. It wasn't until after the delegation had passed through the lobby and into the hotel that anyone bothered to ask them who they were. I suppose nobody really suspects Australians having a quiet drink could ever be up to anything sinister.

I would have thought that in such a highly publicised security crackdown as this, that one of the basic things to be covered would be that every motorcade's route would have been plotted and that police along the way would have been told when delegations were leaving. Apparently not!

Far from being cranky with the Chaser team, police should be thankful it was an Aussie dressed up as Osama bin Laden and not the real thing.

So, as they say on the "Chaser" show, that got me to thinking. My thinking is this. Maybe we are a bit too reliant on human security arrangements which have been shown only too clearly to be subject to human failings.

If we trust in our own abilities or the abilities of other people to keep us safe in life then we are going to be disappointed. It's a fact of life- people will let you down.

But if we put our trust in Jesus, he will see us safely through this life and into eternity.

That's real security!