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Search
and Rescue
Misha
Marshall and her dog named Gandalf and fireman Danny
Gambill found 12-year-old lost Boy Scout Michael
Auberry simultaneously in the Wilkes County wilderness
of western North Carolina last Tuesday.
Kent
Auberry, the missing scout's father, told reporters on
Tuesday that Michael left camp because he was
homesick. “He
started walking, and at one point when he was walking
he thought maybe he’d walk as far
as the road and hitchhike home.”
Auberry,
who left his fellow Scouts last Saturday, survived
four days and three nights in temperatures that dipped
into the 20s. He was wearing two jackets, but he lost
his hat and glasses and collected “lots of
scratches,” according to
his father.
When
Auberry was discovered missing around 11 a.m. on
Saturday, an intense search began involving
“literally hundreds of people as part of a very
large search-and-rescue operation that went from the
local all the way up to the national level”
according to Scout leader, Scott Spillman. Scores of
searchers with trained dogs and heat-sensing
helicopters scoured the area for the missing Scout.
When
he was found, “he was a little dazed,” according
to Marshall, and he was tired, hungry and dehydrated.
After being treated for dehydration, he was sent home
to Greensboro, NC, to rest. After the rescue, Kent
Auberry said, “To have our son back is a tremendous
blessing.”
Auberry’s
experience teaches us some things about our OWN
condition…
Because
of wrong choices that WE make, WE TOO are "LOST"
in SIN and
in desperate need of salvation (Romans 6:23).
The Scriptures compare us to "sheep":
“We ALL, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us
has turned to his own way” (Isaiah 53:6).
We have wandered away and are in peril of our
lives!
But
God sent the Good Shepherd (Jesus) to “seek and to
save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10; John
10:1-18). This
“search-and-rescue mission” cost the
LIFE of the Good Shepherd (John 10:11).
However, because of His sacrificial death, you
and I can be RESCUED!
The
Good Shepherd will rescue those who: believe
in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their 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; 22:16).
He will lead to safety those who:
continue to follow Him in trusting obedience (1 John
1:7).
To
be “found” and rescued by Christ is a
tremendous blessing indeed!
Have
YOU been rescued?
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
* Information
gleaned from “Dog and Fireman Both Found Lost Scout” by
Mike Celizic, TODAYshow.com contributor, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17719391/
and “Dad: Boy Scout Was ‘Homesick.” Associated Press http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17718695
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