Life Insurance.

A Letter to an Insurer.
My dear Friend, — Having heard that you have lately “insured your life,” I wish to call your attention to one aspect of the case which I suspect will be new to you. You are deliberately paying a yearly sum to secure a benefit to your family which they cannot touch till after your decease. That decease (you calculate) must take place at some period, and will probably occur before that of your wife and children. You have, therefore, taken precautions for their comfort after your departure from them. Let me now ask, what precautions have you taken for yourself in prospect of the same event? Imagine your family in possession of the sum for which you have insured. Where will you be at that moment? If you have no reasonable hope of happiness, is it not time you considered that subject also? One half of the time spent in the consideration of the preliminaries to Insurance would have sufficed on reflection, to convince you of the rashness of drifting to eternity without chart, compass, or guided helm, and of giving to the temporal comfort of survivors so much more consideration than to the Eternal happiness or misery of your own soul. Remember it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the Judgment, Hebrews 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27).1 The wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. Romans 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23). Care for one’s family does not shorten life, or hasten the solemn event for which preparation is made. No more will it diminish the true pleasures of the present life, to have another and more blessed one in prospect, for in addition to the joy that prospect itself affords, the Godliness connected with it, is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Believe me, my dear Friend,
very sincerely Yours,
H. W. B.
 
1. Take notice. It does not say all men will die, for in the next verse we are told that the Lord will find some looking for Him. Are you looking for God’s Son from Heaven to take you to be with Him forever?