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Search and Rescue Misha Marshall and her dog named Gandalf and fireman Danny Gambill found 12-year-old lost Boy Scout Michael Auberry simultaneously in the Wilkes County wilderness of western North Carolina last Tuesday. Kent Auberry, the missing scout's father, told reporters on Tuesday that Michael left camp because he was homesick. “He started walking, and at one point when he was walking he thought maybe he’d walk as far as the road and hitchhike home.” Auberry,
who left his fellow Scouts last Saturday, survived
four days and three nights in temperatures that dipped
into the 20s. He was wearing two jackets, but he lost
his hat and glasses and collected “lots of
scratches,” according to
his father. When Auberry was discovered missing around 11 a.m. on Saturday, an intense search began involving “literally hundreds of people as part of a very large search-and-rescue operation that went from the local all the way up to the national level” according to Scout leader, Scott Spillman. Scores of searchers with trained dogs and heat-sensing helicopters scoured the area for the missing Scout. When he was found, “he was a little dazed,” according to Marshall, and he was tired, hungry and dehydrated. After being treated for dehydration, he was sent home to Greensboro, NC, to rest. After the rescue, Kent Auberry said, “To have our son back is a tremendous blessing.” Auberry’s experience teaches us some things about our OWN condition… Because
of wrong choices that WE make, WE TOO are "LOST"
in SIN and But God sent the Good Shepherd (Jesus) to “seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10; John 10:1-18). This “search-and-rescue mission” cost the LIFE of the Good Shepherd (John 10:11). However, because of His sacrificial death, you and I can be RESCUED! The Good Shepherd will rescue those who: believe in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) in His name for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38; 22:16). He will lead to safety those who: continue to follow Him in trusting obedience (1 John 1:7). To be “found” and rescued by Christ is a tremendous blessing indeed! Have YOU been rescued? David
A. Sargent, Minister * Information gleaned from “Dog and Fireman Both Found Lost Scout” by Mike Celizic, TODAYshow.com contributor, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17719391/ and “Dad: Boy Scout Was ‘Homesick.” Associated Press http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17718695 To Subscribe to "Living Water" send a blank e-mail to:
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