>go compare the money supermeerkat*

>My car insurance is up for renewal soon. I had the dreaded letter from my insurance company and it is not actually quite as bad as I feared. It was higher than last year but not drastically so. What I can’t understand, though, is why the insurance rises as the value of the car diminishes. Some mistake, surely?


Well, I have done the thing we are advised to do and compared small desert-dwelling members of the mongoose family (or was it a similar-sounding site) and visited a couple of other price comparison websites. So far my insurance quote is looking fairly competitive.


I know that car insurance is compulsory (for excellent reasons) but I can’t help wondering what God makes of Christians having insurance. Does it come under the category marked ‘lack of faith’ or the category marked ‘wise living’? Does he have a chuckle when churches insure themselves against ‘Acts of God’ and reach for the ‘smite’ button on his computer? In Western society insurance is an option for many people. We can insure our cars, our homes, our mobile phones, our appliances, our lives – almost anything. But for the vast majority of people on this planet insurance is not even an option: even if they could afford it.


So I am thanking God that I have the option of insuring. I am grateful to him that I have items that need to be insured. I recognise how privileged I am. I know that with that privilege comes responsibility – not to hoard, not to covet, to be generous and to remember that this is only ‘stuff’ and that I am merely a temporary steward of it during my time on this planet. I will try to hold loosely to the stuff that can be insured and to hold tighter to the One who offers eternal life insurance through faith in Jesus.



Jeff’s farm was destroyed by a tornado. His wife Amy called their insurance agent and said, “The farm was insured for $200,000 and we want the money.”

“I’m sorry Amy, but it doesn’t work that way. We will determine the value of your farm and get you a new one that is worth about the same.” the agent said.

Amy paused and replied, “Well, in that case, I’d like to cancel the life insurance policy on my husband.”


*For any non-UK readers, this title is a combination of the names of several well-known price comparison websites in the UK