For a country, it may be billions of dollars. For your car, a coat of wax may handle it. For the place you live, it's probably rows of overlapping shingles that deflect the rain and shrug off the snow.
Shingles protect everything beneath them, but look at the plywood they're attached to. Nails used to fasten down the shingles puncture and splinter wood.
Are the shingles doing their job of protecting the wood? Yes - but at a cost.
Protection is never free. It always costs something.
If you love and follow God he is with you. He dwells in your in the person of the Holy Spirit. But that protection comes at a cost.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
You are protected.
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