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Never
Forget
A
severe potato famine occurred in the 19th
century motivating many of the Irish to come to the
New World to find new opportunities.
One of the stories that came out
of these events is about a little boy who did not have
the money to pay his fare to board a ship to the New
World. But,
he secretly boarded the ship anyway becoming
a stow-away.
As
the ship was traveling on the high seas it ran into an
iceberg and began to sink.
Passengers began filling the lifeboats to
escape to safety. At first the little boy, who had been hiding in the hull of
the ship, was not aware of what was going on.
When he realized what was happening, he rushed
up to the deck and saw the captain taking the last
seat in the last lifeboat.
In the highest tradition of the sea, the
captain got out of the lifeboat and gave the boy his
seat. As
the lifeboat pulled away the captain said to the boy,
“ Never forget what’s been done for you.”
The
boy became successful in the New World and was asked
the secret of his motivation.
He said, “Whenever
I begin to doubt myself or
let up from
what
I ought to be doing, I always remember a
captain standing on a deck and saying,
“ Never forget what’s been done for you.” *
YOU
and I are much like that little boy!
ALL of us have sinned
and fall short of
the glory of God and the “ship” onto which we have
boarded is sinking, headed for destruction (Romans
3:23; 6:23). Noticing our plight, the “Captain” of the Universe
-- Jesus Christ, the Son of God – willingly and
lovingly gave His life that we might be saved (1
Thessalonians 5:10).
Because
of His death on the cross, WE can be saved from our
sins when:
we place our trust
in Him (Hebrews 11:6), repent
of our sin (2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of our sins
(Acts 2:38). “And
He died for ALL, that those who live should live no
longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them
and rose again”
(2 Corinthians 5:15).
Jesus will continue to cleanse those who
continue to live for Him.
The
call from the cross of Calvary upon which Jesus died
is, “ Never forget what’s been done for
you.”
May each of us gratefully respond to that
wonderful gift by submitting our lives to the One who
died for us.
God bless you!
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
* Allan Eldridge
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