Luke 12:16-18
And He told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.’
A close friend of ours was an insurance agent. Among other types of insurance, he represented a company that insured against storm damage. He once shared with a group of us that one man who had the insurance called him in the middle of a hailstorm to say that his metal patio cover was about to collapse and he should get right over and shovel it off. RIGHT!
Well sure enough the hail was heavy enough that the cover finally came down. The man called the insurance agent and said he was not going to pay his deductible part of the policy because he had notified him and he did not come over to remove the hail.
How very much like that we are like that homeowner. It seems as if we treat the Lord in much the same manner. God has given us His great and precious promises that will ultimately be fulfilled in heaven.
Instead of trusting in the Lord (our divine insurance policy), we pester the Lord to do it for us. It just does not work that way. Let Proverbs 3:5-6 be our watch word and song: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!
– – – Pastor Cecil