She didn’t want to
leave her home because she didn’t think the hurricane would be that big
of a deal.
She was wrong.
Johnny Lauder’s
mother is 84-years-old with one leg and wheelchair bound. As Hurricane
Ian approached, she refused to leave her home in Naples, Florida. She
didn’t see the need for her son or grandsons to stay with her. But
Lauder and his sons stayed nearby just in case.
Hurricane Ian struck
the southwest Florida coast causing tremendous flooding. Johnny’s
mother frantically called him on the phone. She told him that she was
sitting in her wheelchair in her home and water was up to her stomach.
“Help me! I’m going to drown!”
About a half-mile away from her home, Lauder was
staying in the home of one of his sons. Floodwaters had grown to 3½ to
4 feet outside his house. Lauder knew that he needed to get to his
mother. He made sure his sons were safe.
“They went up in
an attic crawl space with a way to get out of the roof, if need be, and
I jumped out the window and started making my trek to help mom.”
Lauder waded through the floodwaters to his
mother’s house. As he approached her home, he heard her screaming for
help. Lauder entered the home through a window, found his mother,
wrapped her up in blankets and set her on a high table. Then they rode
out the storm.
Lauder had instructed his 20-year-old son to come
to his grandmother’s house when the water had receded halfway. When
that happened and his son made it to her home, Lauder and his son lifted
the grandmother through a window, put her in her wheelchair, and pushed
her through the floodwaters to a safe place.
It took 11 hours for Lauder to rescue his mother.
*
When we were in a
grave condition because of our sins, God sent His one and only Son to
rescue us (John 3:16). God’s Son, Jesus, was devoted to His father and
to us, and gave His life for us so that we could be saved (Romans 5:8;
John 15:13).
Because of Jesus we can be saved from sin and
receive the gift of eternal life if we will only place our
faith and trust
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 be
baptized
(immersed) into Him for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). Then, as
we continue to walk in the light of His Word, the atoning blood of Jesus
continues to cleanse us from all sin (1 John 1:7-9).
When we were dying
in sin, God’s devoted Son came to our rescue (Galatians 1:4). He will
save you if you will trust and obey Him.
-- David A. Sargent
* Information gleaned from “Devoted son spends 11
hours rescuing disabled mother from Hurricane Ian: 'She was happy to see
me'” by Bailee Hill of Fox News,
www.foxnews.com.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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