I was at the grocery store this morning and heard a loud crash and something shattering. Being nosy, I walked towards the sound and saw some people whispering and looking back to the end of the next aisle. When I walked down the aisle, I saw an older lady had hit a shelf and many things had fallen to the ground and broke. She was kneeling on the floor embarrassed, frantically trying to clean up. I felt bad for her, and everyone was just standing there staring at her. So, I went and knelt beside her and told her not to worry and started helping her pick up the broken pieces. After about a minute, the store manager came and knelt beside us and said, “Leave it, we will clean this up.” The lady, totally embarrassed, said “I need to pay for all this first.” The manager smiled, helped her to her feet and said, “No ma’am, we have insurance for this, you do not have to pay anything!” Consider this in your mind: God doing the same thing for us. Collecting the broken pieces of your heart from all the trials of life. God will heal all your wounds because He wants to! He wants to care for our souls! We too have that same insurance; Grace.
In a lot of respects, the insurance we have is what we give credit to for “saving” us in certain situations. Whether it is our auto insurance or health insurance, we give those things credit because there is no way we would be able to overcome those setbacks without insurance. We ought to apply the same moniker to grace. Ephesians 2:8-9 says this, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Let me ask you a question. Is your insurance any good if you don’t pay the bill for it? The gift of God is his paying the bill for our insurance. We do not deserve salvation, and we lose it if we don’t keep the faith and diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). Therefore, keep paying the insurance bill!
Logan Baldwin