An Outreach Publication of the Church of Christ at Creekwood  

Lifted Above

By the main warehouses that are down by the river in a particular town there is a daily operation that occurs. In order for the barges to be able to come in and out, the channel has to be dredged often.  When the sand is dredged from the bottom of the river and is dumped on the riverbank, huge sand hills are created upon which children love to play.  However, these mounds can be very dangerous.  When the sand comes out of the river bottom, it's wet and it creates a crust on the top of the hills. A person can climb to the top of one of these mounds and it will collapse causing the person to sink down inside the mound and be covered instantly by the sand.

Several years ago two brothers didn't come home for dinner and their bikes were found outside the fence where the dredging had taken place. The brothers’ family and other rescue workers began to search frantically for the two brothers. They finally found one of them. He was buried up to his chin in the sand. Because of the pressure of the wet sand and muck around him, he was not breathing; so they began to dig frantically. When they uncovered him down to his waist he regained consciousness and the family, in hysterics, began to say, “Where's your brother? Where's your brother? Where's your brother?”

The boy replied, “I'm standing on his shoulders.” *

The one brother had given his life so that the other might be saved! 
Jesus said, "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends” (John 15:13).

Jesus demonstrated this “greater love” by giving His life for you and for me.  When we were sinking into the depths of sin, Jesus bore the weight of our sins on the cross (1 Peter 2:24) providing the means of our salvation.  He invites each of us to “stand on His shoulders” so that you and I can be saved.

We can be saved by the merits of Christ’s death on the cross if we believe in Him
(Acts 16:30-31), turn from our 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).  And, if we will continue to follow Him faithfully, He will receive us into an eternal home (1 John 1:7; John 14:1-6).

“I Was Sinking Deep In Sin, Far From The Peaceful Shore,
Very Deeply Stained Within, Sinking To Rise No More;
But The Master Of The Sea, Heard My Despairing Cry,
From The Waters Lifted Me, Now Safe Am I”

“Love lifted me….”
  *

Won’t you allow the love of Jesus to lift YOU from the deadly depths of sin?

-- David A. Sargent, Minister

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

* Adapted from Tom Moore, Avenue T Church of Christ
*
Love Lifted Me - Written by James Rowe 1912

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