The call came in to the Maryland Heights
Fire Protection Unit of St. Louis, Missouri, that a metro bus, loaded
only with the driver, had slid on an icy road and spun around in the
opposite direction. Two firefighter paramedics,
Jon
Stillpass and Shaylor Taetz, responded in an ambulance. They determined
that the driver didn’t appear to have any life-threatening injuries, but
she was shaken up and needed to be taken to the hospital for evaluation.
As they made their way to DePaul
Hospital, Stillpass continued to navigate carefully on the icy roads.
They added chains to the wheels of the ambulance for traction, but at
one point the ambulance still slid into a guardrail. They managed to
continue until they were about a mile from the hospital. Then the
ambulance began to slide again, but Stillpass was able to guide the
ambulance away from a 15-foot ravine into a small gully on the left side
of the road. The ambulance was stuck.
“Let’s just huff it,” Taetz said to
Stillpass. So the two paramedics put some small chains on their boots
and began to push the patient on a stretcher up the icy road to the
hospital – complete with two large hills.
"You know how your parents say 'uphill
both ways'? It was like that," Taetz joked.
A nurse captured a photo of the paramedics guiding the
stretcher up one of the hills. The photo gave visual evidence their
determination to make sure their patient received the care she needed.
The Bible
reveals that each of us desperately needs the care of Jesus, the Great
Physician. All of us, through our wrong choices, have sinned in the
sight of God (Romans 3:23). Sin is fatal, “for the wages of sin is
death” (Romans 6:23). If we don’t receive the care of the Great
Physician, we will die.
The Good News
– the Gospel – is that God sent His Son Jesus to be our Great
Physician. The “cure” for our sins necessitated the death of Jesus on
the cross as payment for our sins. “For Christ also suffered once for
sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 Peter
3:18; cf. 2 Corinthians 5:18-21).
God will save 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).
When we
desperately needed help, Jesus came to our rescue (Luke 19:10; Galatians
1:3-4). Won’t YOU accept His offer of salvation and eternal life
while you still can?
-- David A.
Sargent
* Information gleaned from “Firefighters walk a mile on
ice to get injured patient to the hospital” by Lauren M. Johnson,
www.cnn.com,
February 12,
2019.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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