When an Insurance Policy Is Not Enough

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When an Insurance Policy Is Not Enough

By Marvin A. McMickle

Senior Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio

If my car had not hit at that precise spot I would have gone off the highway, down a hill, and probably rolled over and been killed. As it was, I traveled across all of that rush-hour traffic without hitting anything and without being hit myself. My eyeglass frame was broken by the force of the air bag that deployed when I smashed into the steel guard rail. Other than that, I suffered no injuries, no cuts and no bruises of any kind.

Now let me talk to you about insurance and assurance. My car was badly damaged and had to be towed back to Cleveland for repairs, and I had insurance to cover that expense. But it was not my insurance that kept me from being killed on that highway. It was not my insurance that made sure I ran into that steel guard rail. It was not my insurance that dispatched angels to I-75 that kept me and others from harm and even from death. No, what happened on that highway was one of the benefits of my life assurance policy.

I believe there is a clause in my life assurance policy that says, "The Lord will make a way somehow." I believe there is a section in my life assurance policy that says, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me." My insurance policy took care of my car, but it was my life assurance policy that took care of me.

I have car insurance, house insurance, regular health insurance, long-term health insurance and life insurance. However, I understand—and I hope you understand, as well—that life insurance alone is never enough. There is going to come a day, both in this life and at its very end, when you will need to be covered by a life assurance policy. You cannot buy this policy from Allstate, State Farm, Nationwide or GEICO.

There is only One agent who can provide you with a life assurance policy. Do you know of whom I am speaking? Maybe you know this song that speaks about Him when it says:

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine;
O what a foretaste of glory divine.
Heir of salvation, purchased of God;
Born of his spirit, washed in His blood.
This is my story, this is my song;
Praising my savior all the day long.
I have a great life assurance policy. How about you?

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