Electricity has to be protected against itself.
Illustration★★★★Illustration 1. Electricity has to be protected against itself. The wires that are in service in a building must be covered with insulation. Otherwise the current will creep across from one wire to the other. Then you will have no ligkt or heat. And we have to be insulated against ourselves most of all. Unless God insulated us, protected us against ourselves, we would spend all of our energies on ourselves. Those whom we ought to help would receive little or no help from us. So far as we are con- cerned they would remain like a motor on an uninsulated line, waiting for power, ever waiting. We have to turn our life fully over to the Father and then He can insulate us against ourselves,
The point
Electricity needs insulation to prevent self-damage; similarly, God insulates believers against self-centeredness so we can focus on serving others effectively.