Insured

March 30

We buy insurance for everything. There is car insurance, health insurance, life insurance, flood insurance, earthquake insurance, and tornado insurance. There are insurance policies that can be obtained that will render financial assistance if one contracts a specific disease. There is general catastrophic insurance.

Governments stockpile arsenals of weapons as insurance against attack by an aggressor nation. At one time the thinking was that if enemies could mutually destroy each other, neither side would ‘push the button.’ With the acquisition of nuclear materials by rogue governments who see nuclear annihilation as a method of assisting God in bringing judgment to a fallen world, that is no longer a safe assumption.

But, in practice, whatever we can insure has a policy written as protection against that eventuality. What are we doing, however to insure our eternal destiny? What are we doing to ascertain our place in Heaven? Some people think their good works will afford them recognition in the eyes of God. They try to earn their reward by sacrificial giving or by doing altruistic works. While these are worthy endeavors, they are not acts that obtain salvation.

The one thing man can do to insure his place in heaven is to accept Jesus as his Savior and Lord. This is the one thing many people put off to a more convenient season. While they would never let their temporal insurance policies lapse, they have neglected obtaining their eternal insurance policy. But, God says,”…Now is the accepted time; today is the day of salvation” II Corinthians 6:2. Make no tarrying!