This isn’t a lesson on driving, nor is it about brainless people. We’re talking crash test creations, those life-like test devices that have enabled our cars to become nearly injury-free.
Like an airbag, man, to paraphrase an old “groovy” phrase.
Take those airbags. The reason we can know they work is by placing crash test dummies (their term, not mine) in cars and crashing them. Sensors in the dummy bodies tell us if the dummy would have survived or not.
Airbags are often what ensure that they would have lived.
What is our airbag in life? What enables us to survive the worst car wrecks that can happen to us? Heartbreak, financial calamity, a terminal diagnosis? Or other things worse than that? Abuse or oppression?
We can find it in Luke 10:19:
“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
Trample means to crush, flatten, walk over … to squash whatever bad things come our way. And … drum roll … nothing by any means shall hurt us. No car smash, no matter how horrendous, will cause us harm. Christ is the airbag that offers us protection when nothing seems to go our way.
We might not know what’s ahead. We may feel like driving dummies, unable to avoid the potholes in life, but Jesus has us covered.
Our Lord is there to guard against every obstacle, and he will protect us along the way.
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