A 12-year-old boy in Marysville, Washington, was enjoying
recess when suddenly his life was in danger. He was standing on the
concrete lid of a well when the concrete crumbled beneath him, and he
fell 20 feet into the well. Firefighters from the Marysville Fire
District were called in for the rescue. They found the boy clinging to
a plastic pipe which kept him above the water line.
The
firefighters removed the remaining concrete and lowered a long ladder
into the well. The boy was able to climb up the ladder to safety. He
was taken to a local hospital where he was treated for lacerations on
his head. He is expected to recover fully. *
Because of
our sins, we are a lot like that boy in the well with no hope of
surviving unless there is outside intervention. Our salvation from sin
requires divine intervention, for only He can save us from our
predicament.
Our sins
separate us from God (Isaiah 59:1-2), but God loves us anyway. He loves
us so much that He sent His Son Jesus to rescue us (John 3:16). To save
us from sin, Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins (Ephesians
1:7). “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the
unrighteous, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18 ESV). “He
himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin
and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter
2:24).
God will save from sin and give eternal life to
those who place their faith
and trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from
their sins in repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are
baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will
continue to cleanse from sin those who continue to walk in the light of
His Word (1 John 1:7-9).
Jesus is the
Ladder to heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). We
must be willing to “cling to the Ladder” in trusting obedience in order
to be saved. Won’t YOU?
-- David A.
Sargent
*
Information gleaned from “Washington state firefighters rescue
12-year-old boy who fell 20 feet down well” by Stephen Sorace of Fox
News,
www.foxnews.com.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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