FIRE INSURANCE VS. LORDSHIP

Greetings friends and neighbors... who's your Daddy?

That phrase..."Who's your Daddy?"... is meant to say..."Who's The Boss." It implies..."Who's in control." We love bumper sticker mentality that says..."God is my CO-PILOT." This means...I am in control...I am the pilot...and God is over to the right hand side...as 2nd in command. If things get tough...if I lose control of the plane...the co-pilot is there to help out. I can understand that...after all we are men and women of VOLITION...free will...free choice. God has allowed us the ability to make decisions...and has graciously allowed us to call upon him to interact within the affairs of man and wo-man. We do this by prayer. As Jack Hayford's book title says it all...PRAYER IS INVADING THE IMPOSSIBLE. Jesus has two titles (really there are multiple titles)...Jesus is (1) Lord (2) Savior. The question is...which one is he in your life...or is he both...or have you added a third option. Sometimes I feel as if he is the third option in my life.


The third option....(3) FIRE INSURANCE. We are living out our lives on planet earth...then one day we get to the point of where we can't standing it any longer. We either feel as if we are living a hell on this earth.. or we start to believe the Bible and the fact that there is this place of torment called HELL. We figure we better do something...so we get SAVED. We look at salvation as getting "saved from Hell" or...investing in our FIRE INSURANCE. As long as we have that policy...we are save from the flames licking our backsides. The problem is that we think that with that FIRE INSURANCE POLICY...that we can live like HELL here on earth...and do anything that we want to do...and it is covered by grace and mercy...while avoiding HELL in the afterlife.


This thing called salvation is more than just avoidance of punishment...it is only the beginning of a wonderful life here on this cursed and fallen swirling terrestrial ball called the 3rd Rock from the sun...planet Earth. God has reached down to humanity in the form of Jesus Christ to bridge the gap. As we live this life..."between the glory and the flame"...between heaven and hell... Jesus must be more than just FIRE INSURANCE. He must become LORD...not just our SAVIOR.

SAVIOR: soter (so-tare)...a deliverer...to save...that is deliver or protect...heal, preserve, do well, make whole.

LORD: kurios (koo-ree-os)...supreme in AUTHORITY...controller, master, Sir, Mr. (the bottom line...BOSS)

One is what he DOES...the other is what He IS. He is not the co-pilot...He is the PILOT. You know...I am writing this as if I know what I am talking about...and actually practice this 24/7...HOWEVER...a lot of times in my life...I act as if ROD IS GOD. Instead of Jesus is Lord...I act as if Rodney is LORD.


Currently...on April 28th, 2007...we are able to practice VOLITION (free will and choice)...and abdicate our Lordship to His Lordship. We are able to bow ourselves down before Him and say Jesus is BOSS. Jesus is the one in CONTROL of our lives. Our fate is not in the hand of the devil (little d)...the government....world leaders... or even corporate entities. There will come a time...when the choice is out of our hands...it will be mandated...but then it will be to late.

"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him (Jesus) and given Him (Jesus) a NAME which is above every name (you name it...Jesus is above it). That at the NAME OF JESUS...every knee should bow of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should CONFESS (say the same thing God says) that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD (boss, the one in control), to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:9-11)