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A
Father's Love
Phil
Littleford took his son on an Alaskan fishing trip
with two other men.*
In a quest to find some running salmon, they
flew their seaplane into a secluded bay.
The fishing was everything they had dreamed.
When they had finished for the day, their plane
was on dry ground.
The fluctuating tide had left their plane
twenty-three feet from
the water, so they cooked some of their fish for
dinner and slept in the plane.
When
they awoke.... the tide had come in and their
plane was drifting in the water. They cranked the engine and took off. Unknown to them, one of the pontoons had been punctured and
was filled with water.
The extra weight caused the seaplane to crash
within moments. Everyone
survived, BUT they had no safety equipment on board.
They used their waders as floating devices, but
the frigid water was a deadly threat.
The current was too strong for Dr.
Littleford’s twelve-year-old son to swim against.
The other two men fought their way against the
tide and barely made it to shore.
The
two survivors looked back from shore to see Dr.
Littleford and his son, Mark, being swept out to sea,
arm-in-arm.
The Coast Guard reported that they probably
lasted no more than an hour in the freezing waters. The hypothermia would chill the body functions and put them
to sleep. Mark,
with a smaller body mass, would fall asleep first and
die in his father’s arms. Dr. Littleford could have made it to shore, BUT that would
have meant abandoning his son.
He chose to die with his boy!
You
and I were lost in the sea of SIN!
Too weak to fight against sin’s
current,
WE were without hope.
Seeing our terrible plight, the Heavenly Father
did NOT abandon us, but rather He sent His Son to our
rescue. The
Son of God reached out to us urging us to cling to Him
for our salvation.
In order to rescue us from our sins, the Son of
God gave His life.
He died - so that we might live!
Through
His sacrificial death, the Son of God CONTINUES to
reach out to ALL who are drowning in the sea of
SIN. ONLY
those who "GRASP" His
offer of salvation are saved.
To be saved... one must embrace
the truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God (Acts 16:31), repent
of sin (Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus (Romans 10:9-10), be immersed
in water for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38), AND continue
to cling to the Savior in obedience to His will
(Revelation 2:10).
The
love of the Father is too GREAT to be comprehended,
but too IMPORTANT to be refused!
Will YOU not
reach up to Him through your trusting obedience for
salvation?
God bless you.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
*as reported by Patrick Morely
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