2214.—Life Insurance. Pleasure Parties.
By Editor
- Is it wrong to carry a life-insurance policy to provide for one's family? Does the Bible speak against it? If so give the text.
- Are pleasure parties or socials, not to dance or play kissing-games (as I call them), but to play croquet, eat ice-cream, indulge in innocent amusements, wrong? Does the Bible speak against such? If so where?
1. The Bible does not aim to prohibit every wrong thing or to tell us what specific thing to do or not to do under all circumstances. It deals with great principles. God demands the whole heart and soul and strength and might. He demands that we should trust Him implicitly; "for He is thy life, and the length of thy days." Deut. 30:20. He putteth and holdeth our soul in life. Ps. 66:9. The best life insurance we know is that which God gives. His promises are more if we believe them than are all the assurances of men. His religion has the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. 1 Tim. 4:8. Life insurance of men can not prolong life. In the vast majority of cases it is not so good as a savings bank. Life insurance sometimes places in the hearts of the beneficiaries a desire for the death of the insured. Trust in God. Economy, thrift, frugality, and diligence are a much better investment than life insurance. 2. If we are truly Christ's, the question will not be, Is it wrong for me to indulge in this, in that, in the other thing? It will not be, Lord, what can I indulge in and still be saved? It will be, Lord, What wilt Thou have me to do? And we will seek to do that which is for the glory of God. God has made us social creatures, and it is right to associate together; but an ice-cream party may be as full of selfishness and as resultant of evil as a dance, and a game of croquet may be as dishonest and wicked as a game of draw poker. The great question is, Are these for the glory of God? 1 Cor. 10:31. Do they better fit us for His service? or are they mere selfish indulgence? Social gatherings may be profitable, helpful, uplifting, and Christians should help make them so or abjure them.