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Witness Protection Program

If you’ve ever watched TV you know about the witness protection program. I think it really does exist in real life, but we probably won’t ever know if any of the people that we come in contact with are in that program. Thus the reason for it. You know the deal. Someone typically has been involved in less than honorable activity. After some turn of events, which usually means that they have been caught, they agree to testify against the “big boss” in exchange for immunity and a new identity including a new location. Essentially they get a new life, a clean slate, a fresh start. It occurred to me that as a Christian my life is like being in the witness protection program with tons more benefits.


We come into this world as God’s precious creation. We were created to love him and each other. He gave us his Son so that we could have access to him, forgiveness of our sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit as our helper and guide. Most of us know that but for some reason or reasons we still try and do it ourselves. There is something in our human, frail, and sinful nature that makes us resist the life offered to us in Christ. There are some that embrace it early in life and never look back, but more typically most of us want to taste the world first. The problem is that tasting the world and what it offers is risky to say the least.


Involvement in sin brings on a multitude of consequences not the least of which is guilt and condemnation. The Word refers to satan as the accuser and he definitely is. He will use our sin against us to accuse us. He whispers to us that we can’t be good enough, that what we’ve done is too big to be forgiven, and that we are not worthy of God’s love. Nothing could be further from the truth. Meanwhile God waits for us and Jesus stands at his right hand pleading our case. Talk about a defense attorney!


Here’s where God’s witness protection program comes into play. At any point we can choose to give our lives to Christ and be reborn into his kingdom. We can trade in our old lives for a brand new one. In exchange we get a whole new identity, new credentials, and a clean slate without even having to move. We’re out from under the control of the “big boss”. He can accuse away, but Christ has our back. Even when we fail as we will daily, the program is still in effect.


What good news! I, for one, am so grateful to be living in God’s witness protection program. I am called to be a witness for Christ. I can confidently do that knowing that satan cannot touch me. I don’t have to fear his accusations, his threats, or his tactics. I am redeemed, set apart, protected, a new creation. No matter what my situation looks like or what trials I face, I am assured that this is a witness protection program that does not fail. My hope and my future are secure in Him!


2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore he (Jesus) is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

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