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Themes Able to Save RESCUED FROM ABOVE A few years ago, I was having nightly Gospel meetings in the eastern part of the United States. A women was coming to the meetings who we thought had some interest in her soul and where she would spend eternity. Some nights after the meetings, we would go to a friends home to eat and talk. One evening, as we sat around the table, the conversation was going nowhere. My partner and I were hoping to turn the conversation to the gospel but were unsuccessful. Then it happened. The woman herself began telling the story of her parents who planned to go on an Alaskan cruise. The day came and off they went to enjoy the wonderful scenery of that vast shore line in the west. They enjoyed the first days of that trip immensely. Then, one day it was raining and foggy when suddenly the ship hit something. Immediately the large cruise ship began to sink into the icy Alaskan waters, in the fog and pouring rain. Help was nowhere to be found. The fog and weather conditions made it almost impossible for another ship to rescue. All the passengers were safely put into the life boats before the ship sank to the bottom. All the passengers and crew were crowded together and standing in the life boats for 14 hours. The fog was lying low in the area. As our friend was telling the story I thought of the hopelessness of the situation, and the hopelessness of sinners lost in the fog of sin with no hope of rescue. She then told us they heard a very welcome sound. No it was not the fog horn of a incoming rescue ship, but the ever familiar sound of a helicopter. Our friend made it very clear that the circumstances around her parents and those stranded with them, made it impossible for another ship to rescue them. Their only hope had to come from above. The words no sooner left her lips, when I thought of the condition of her own soul, and many others like her. Her only hope for deliverance from her sin would be from God above. My partner began to tell her and those at the table about the One that came from above to rescue, save, and deliver from the coming judgment. The Bible says, "The Son of Man (Jesus) is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10). I am glad our friend has since come to know the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior. She has found out, there is only One that can save from sin, the Lord Jesus. He is the only one who has paid the debt of our sin. I'm so thankful that the Lord Jesus died on the cross, and satisfied God. Are you thankful today? Is he your Savior? Remember the words of God, Isaiah records for us "I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no Savior" (Isaiah 43:11).
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Peter Orasuk
