God’s supplemental insurance policy, Part 3

How blessed is he who considers the helpless; the Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble. The Lord will protect him and keep him alive, and he shall be called blessed upon the earth; and do not give him over to the desire of his enemies. The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed; in his illness, You restore him to health.”  Psalm 41:1-3

This entry is the third of a series. If you haven’t read the first two parts, go ahead and scroll down to read them first. There are qualifications to be met in this policy; you need to determine if you want to pay the price before you take advantage of it. 🙂

By virtue of receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you have an all-inclusive policy called “The Finished Work” policy (TFW), paid for you in full by the shed blood of Jesus. This policy, which actually encompasses every other good gift from God, is accessed by faith. You received Jesus by faith, and you live your life by faith. This is the way God designed things to function.

Although the TFW policy is entirely free of charge to you and covers everything, God, in His wisdom, gave us supplemental insurance, #PS41-1-3, so that we humans, acclimated to this material world, could be assisted in navigating the unseen realm of faith by the very concrete illustration of sowing and reaping: You give; you receive. You help; you receive help. And all the while, our sowing allows Christ to be formed in our hearts (see Galatians 4:19), and as we assist others, God supplies their needs through our love and labor. We have the opportunity to “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5b) by allowing God to lead us in serving others.

The Father knew that we would face challenges throughout our lives—some small, some large, and some downright epic in proportion. Faith is the substance God provides for us to deal with all of our difficulties. The bottom line is to operate by faith in both the sowing and the reaping parts and to understand that because of Jesus’ shed blood, God freely gives of His provision to deliver us from trouble.

The Lord will protect him and keep him alive.

What a privilege to partake of God’s protection! How many disasters in your life have been averted by this particular provision of His policy? I think that one of the delights in Heaven will be to see every one of those “near misses” played back so each of us can marvel at His wondrous acts during our earth walk.

Although trouble abounds on every hand, I neither endorse nor recommend living a paranoid life. The Word of God trumps every bit of trouble you can find, and God’s policy is clear and specific as to how He is able to help you. When I sense in my spirit that trouble is looming, I pray, plead the blood of Jesus, and ask the Lord to cover every blind spot I may have. And then I go my way, trusting that He is watching over His Word to perform it (see Jeremiah 1:12).

A few years ago on a Monday, I heard this quiet warning deep within me: “Don’t mow your lawn on Thursday.” I basically thought, Huh, and went my way.

I had all but forgotten the whispery admonition; and when Wednesday came, I was not in the mood to mow my lawn (never was, never will be!). It was already 3:30 in the afternoon, I had just returned from a long walk, and a lawn crew was working on the next door neighbor’s yard. My other neighbor’s pit bull was out, ready to lunge and bark through the fence, and I decided it just wasn’t the right time to mow.

And then I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit say very sweetly, “The lawn crew will help you if the pit bull gets through the fence.”

I thought, Oh well, let’s get at it, and mowed my front yard. By the time I was finished with the front, the lawn crew was gone and the dog was inside. I didn’t really want to work on my back yard, but a strange thing took place. Quite honestly, I felt sort of like a machine being remotely controlled; my mind went into sleep mode, so to speak, and my body went through the motions of mowing the back yard; my will seemed suspended. When I finished, I was thrilled to have the task behind me but wondered at the strange way I had felt while completing the job.

The next day, Thursday, I had several places to go that afternoon and had plans to leave the house a little before noon. As I sat at my kitchen table around 10:30 that morning, I peered through a large window at my freshly mowed back yard and realized that I would have been mowing at that exact moment had I not finished the task the day before. A couple of my cats sat looking out the screened porch door into the back yard as I drank coffee and read the Bible.

Just then my reading was interrupted by a loud, prolonged CRACK, and I watched in amazement as a large silver maple in my back yard teetered in slow motion and then crashed across the width of the property, taking out a large branch of another tree on the opposite side of the yard. I looked at the cats; they looked at me; we all looked back at the fallen tree; and then I remembered the whispery admonition, “Don’t mow your lawn on Thursday” and my strange experience of being “remotely controlled” as I completed my mowing job on Wednesday, just the day before. And when I realized that I could have been squashed like a bug under that huge tree, with no one to see or hear me, I did what any sane person would do—I leaped up and danced wildly around the house, praising God, with cats scurrying in every direction!

Your insurance policy, #PS41-1-3, is an essential supplement to your TFW policy. Your Father desires to protect you and keep you alive in this crazy world, and has made provision to do so. Cling to Him in faith, trust Him at all times, and He will make sure you are covered.

As you consider the helpless and sow into their need, this supplemental policy, #PS41-1-3, will be activated and put into effect for you immediately. Trust Go

Dorothy

How blessed is he who considers the helpless; the Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble. The Lord will protect him and keep him alive.