"What men yearn for is security. What men try to gain age after age is cradle-to-grave security, and it's an impossibility. It is an impossibility because God is dedicated to this one proposition where man's security is concerned - that he cannot have it. Man was driven out of Paradise in the beginning because God would not tolerate man to dwell in Paradise and have the security of his sin. God declared of man that his life is founded upon the seas and established upon the floods, that there is no security for man here below. So God constantly removes from us everything that we try to cling to apart from Him. God hammers down every attempt to establish security in terms of this world. The more we yearn, the more we lust, the more we try to build up a cradle-to-grave security for ourselves, the more relentless and ruthless God is in destroying that."

R.J. Rushdoony, commentary on Zephaniah