Perhaps you have seen the above words on a billboard in your town, and a picture of a mother with her child in her arms. It is an advertisement of a Life Insurance Company, seeking to impress on the reader that the father has taken out a policy, and if death should take him suddenly his wife and child are provided for. The picture gives the impression that they are happy because they know "their future is safe.”
Are you numbering your days, reader? They are passing quickly, and, life insurance or no life insurance, you are passing into eternity. Is your future safe for eternity, as well as for time? Or are you like the rich man in Luke 12, who thought his future was safe because he had much goods laid up for many years? God called him "a fool," because he was not rich in faith, and consequently not rich toward God. The Lord asks the question, "Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" (Luke 12:19-2119And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:19‑21).) Read the whole story as told by our Lord Himself. It is all about one who imagined his future was safe.
Is your future safe? I don't mean only for a few short days, or months, or years, in this passing scene, but can you look along the stream of time, whether it be long or short, and see yourself at the end of your brief life going out into eternity? Will you still be able to say, "My future is safe"? If not, remember that God calls a man a fool—no matter how well off he may be for time—who is not "rich toward God" for eternity. Think—make yourself think—"Soon I must leave here!”
Leaving wealth behind you, and knowing that those who survive you are set free from any pinch of poverty, will not make your eternal future safe, nor insure the eternal future of the loved ones you are leaving here.
Many a man has left enough wealth behind to send his family to hell at breakneck pace! No one blames people for being thrifty and laying up for their children, but what about eternity? Eternity! Are you neglecting your real future by being so engrossed with the present? Into eternity you must go.
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 Cor. 8:99For 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 of it! To make your future safe the holy Son of God left His home in glory and came down into this scene of sin and sorrow. He was born in a stable and cradled in a manger. Later He had no place to lay His head, 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, and if you come to Him as a needy one, a helpless one, and trust His precious blood, your sins will all be "blotted out" (Isa. 44:22, 2322I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 23Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. (Isaiah 44:22‑23)), "all forgiven" (1 John 2:1212I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. (1 John 2:12)), remembered "no more" (Heb. 10:1717And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. (Hebrews 10:17)). Nothing but the blood of Christ can do all this for you. Trust that blood now, just as you are, and where you are, and then "your future will be safe" and you will be happy, knowing 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).