Insurance with A Difference

 

Let’s have a conversation

As a friend of mine would say,

It will be about insurance

The kind we need today.

 

Why do we need insurance?

The question could be asked,

The answer to which, I submit,

Is not a difficult task.

 

We do not know the future

And what does that really mean?

We need to have some backup

Upon which we can later lean.

 

Hence the need for insurance

A just in case policy,

Just in case something happens

We can draw down on that facility.

But this requires a sacrifice

An ongoing sacrifice today,

It means putting by incrementally

Some of our monthly pay.

 

And it isn’t done like in the past

Where some may secure it in a tot,

But we use an insurance company

Where a little can bring a lot.

 

We buy into the guarantee

And we affix out signature to the pact

And in specified monthly premiums

We maintain the signed contract.

 

Any breach of this contract

Could spell for us disaster,

We could forfeit the money we paid

And regret our decision thereafter.

 

Even as I write this poem

Insurance clients are up in arms,

The company shall remain nameless

But there is much public alarm.

 

Insurance appears fraught with risks

Beware when you enter therein!

And concerning the guarantees given

This line appears quite thin.

 

Let me inform you instead

About two other insurance policies,

They are guaranteed beyond time

And throughout all eternity.

 

They are not contractual

As in normal everyday insurance,

There is absolutely no risk involved

Hence you’re not taking a chance.

 

Regarding one of these policies

We are an automatic buy in,

In Psalm 51 the Psalmist declares

That we are born and shaped in sin.

 

The guarantee regarding this policy

Is one of a negative bent

That simply says to you and me

An eternity in hell will be spent.

 

That is of course unless

We buy into the other policy,

They that accept the Son of God

Shall be saved for all eternity.

 

 

This is the insurance I recommend

It’s important that you take it now,

Jesus has paid all the premiums

To him just penitently bow.

 

This is a complete package

Of covenantal, eternal insurance

And it comes to the “whosoever-will”

The compliments of God’s assurance.

 

Its assurance is over time

But the insurance is for all eternity

And comes with the assurance of the Spirit

Backed by the blessed Trinity.

    

There is no chance of embezzlement

By any of the co-essential Three,

The resources invested are all theirs-

None of it comes from you or me.

 

Creator of heaven and earth

And all of its related resources,

Vanquisher and in-conquerable victor

Over all of evil forces.

 

Thus there is no chance of losing out

Once one accepts this insurance,

Unlike today’s life insurance policies

It is God that gives the assurance.

 

Stewart Russell © February 2019