Perhaps you have seen the above words on a billboard in your town, and a picture of a mother with her baby in her arms. The advertisement tries to convey the thought that, if the father is taken suddenly, they are provided for and they are happy because they know “their future is safe”—thanks to their insurance policy.
But for how long? Are we wise if we only look ahead for a few short years? What about eternity? Days are passing quickly and, life insurance or no life insurance, we are passing into eternity. It is possible to be so occupied with the present as to neglect the real future. God calls a man a fool who is not prepared for eternity.
What can make my future—your future—safe? This: “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9).
Think—make yourself think—Soon I must leave here! Into eternity you must go. To make your future safe, the holy Son of God left His home in glory and came into this scene of sin and sorrow. He had no place to lay His head (He was homeless!), and finally He was nailed to a cross and laid in a borrowed tomb. To make your future safe, He suffered and bled and died.
Now, if you will come to Him as a needy one, a helpless one, and trust His precious blood, your sins will all be “blotted out” (Isaiah 44:2222I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. (Isaiah 44:22)), “forgiven” (1 John 2:1212After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. (John 2:12)), and remembered “no more” (Hebrews 10:1717And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. (Hebrews 10:17)). Trust that blood now, just as you are, and then your future will be safe and you will know it is so from God’s own Word, for Jesus says, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand” (John 10:2828And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28)).