The verse below, however, reminds me that our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ has made an even more important, and sure-handed, delivery:
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love – Colossians 1:13
All who believe and follow Jesus have been delivered from the power of darkness. Notice that it has already happened – His work is finished!
While getting my family safely to our destination is certainly important to me, in the end it will only matter if the passengers have a part in His Kingdom. How awful would it be if I worried about getting them from point A to point B safely, but didn’t worry about teaching them the things of eternal importance? I thank God that my wife and children have all be baptized into His Kingdom!
This is why I give “thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.” This is the verse just before the one above in Colossians – and of course we should give thanks to the Father, for sending His Son to come and live to die for us, so we can die to live for Him.
Next time you have an important delivery to make, take some time to remember and thank the Lord for the most important delivery ever made in human history – He delivered the knockout punch to death – for you!