We all want some kind of insurance, or warranties on possessions. Back around 1975 I purchased a living room set and every time I asked about warranties, I was told there weren’t any. When I asked why, I was told, “What do you mean warranties? You mean, you take a knife and slash them & then want us to replace them?” I said, “No! Warranty against defects!” I had never heard of someone doing that to sofas.
About twenty years ago, a nephew of mine came to PR and rented a vehicle. He opted not to get insurance. What could go wrong? He visited a cousin and backed the car into a tree branch which went right through! It cost him more than the insurance!
That’s life. It’s like not extending a warranty on a small appliance warranted for 90 days. Then it breaks down on day 98! Insurance is an assurance that “we’re covered” in the event of a breakdown. As the saying goes, “Son, there are only two things guaranteed in life: taxes, and death.” Wouldn’t you like the assurance that you’re covered for the afterlife? Beyond death isn’t a journey through mystical cities where one floats through abysses and happens upon mystical creatures and blah, blah, blah.
The afterlife is either being in the presence of God or an eternity away from Him and His goodness. “Yet we have this assurance: Those who belong to God shall live again. Their bodies shall rise again! Those who dwell in the dust shall awake and sing for joy! For God’s light of life will fall like dew upon them” (Isaiah 26:19-21 TLB).
And this one: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us” (Romans 8:35,37).
We have our insurance/assurance that nothing will separate us from the love of God, and that His blood has covered our sins!
God Bless!
Sam