True Asylum In Christ
Text: Deuteronomy 19:1-10
Key verse: “Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither” (Deuteronomy 19:3).
Asylum is a protection immunity from extradition granted by a government to political refugees from another country. It equally means any place that offers safety.
There are six cities of refuge to provide security for those who mistakenly killed in the Old Testament. The Lord commanded Mosses to appoint those asylum cities, so that anyone who shed blood inadvertently might retire thither, and have time to prepare for his defense before the judges, and that the kinsman of the deceased might not pursue and kill him.
Likewise in Christ Jesus, is an appointed asylum and refuge for sinners and backsliders. Happy is the soul that flees and is safe in Christ. Are you oppressed, afflicted or loaded with the burden of sin? There is a protection and immunity from sin and its consequences, if you repent and believe in Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.
A songwriter writes: “O soul, are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There is light for a look at the Savior and life more abundant and free. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace.”
And the Scripture says: “That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us” (Hebrews 6:18).
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: True safety is in Jesus.