Tell me that your heart isn’t moved when you watch a cluster of videos about heroic life-saving moments. The suspense, the adrenaline, the moving scene, and the moment when an unsung hero steps into their ordinary day to perform an extraordinary rescue.
When you see these videos, your heart is instantly captivated by the unfolding story before your eyes. Even though the videos themselves are often just seconds long, it’s as if you see a lifetime whizzing by with each person perfectly placed in their role of that life-saving moment.
You can almost feel for yourself the strength that grabbed, the energy that ran and moved into place to snatch someone from some impending doom.
Feeling so fantastically real, yet unreal, you rewatch that catch, that coming to the aid of another, that rescue repeatedly in awe, wonder, and relief.
With your held breath now released, you cannot believe what you just witnessed. Courage that was not trying to be courageous. Strength that just made itself available for the moment. Determination that stepped in when no one else could or would. Humanity at its best, we say.
“Not all heroes wear capes” is what many declare, and I can personally attest to that because the greatest hero of my life didn’t. He wore a crown of thorns and bore the pain of the cross to give me the greatest rescue I could have ever imagined.
And I am still in awe of it to this very day.
One thing that became plain to me years ago is that we all needed a great rescue. None of us was born a Christian. Oh, we may have been born in a Christian home, with Christian parents and relatives, but there is not one person on this earth that can have the testimony that they entered this world saved and in a whole, completely pure relationship with our Heavenly Father.
Scripture reminds us, “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Each of us has had our B.C. (Before Christ) moments.
Previously, I wrote,
“We all have a past. We all had things that were not characterized as being a godly lifestyle. Still, even if one tried to live perfectly, we all had a place and time in our history where we had to choose to trust and accept Jesus Christ as our Savior because any personal righteousness we may have thought to have had, outside of Him, it was merely “filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6).” (We All Have a Past/WordforLifeSays.com).
Jesus Christ is the only spotless one. He is the one who was not only born sinless but remained sinless through His life on this earth for our great rescue.
I remember my time of rebellious living when God stepped in and saved my life. And now, today, I live on the other side of that rescuing moment.
I went from self-reliance to leaning on those everlasting arms. From dealing with anger to finding true peace. From broken relationships that were destructive and led to bad decisions and choices, to the most wholesome relationship anyone could ever experience.
Having my life now found in Jesus Christ truly is the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
I was now considered one of the redeemed. My old nature, my old life, was now something wonderfully new.
Today, my life looks completely different, inside and out. How I lived then, I don’t live anymore. How I walked then, I do not walk anymore. In the gospels, we are given this promise: “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). There is now a walk of freedom! This was a promise spoken by our Lord!
At the beginning of that chapter was a woman who was caught in her own sin. To make a long story short, she found release that day from her failures, just like I did. Further down that chapter, Jesus spoke this promise (promise of freedom) for those who would believe in Him (John 8:31), then and today.
He who spoke that promise is the same Jesus Christ who was born on this earth just so that He could go to the cross and die. He is that same Jesus, whom death could not keep a hold of, because on the third day, that same Jesus rose in victory, putting death in its place once and for all. Forty days later, that same Jesus went back to heaven to prepare a place for us: “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:3).
He didn’t do all of that just for that woman or me – but for all who would believe! There is a walk of freedom anyone can experience today, but it must come through Jesus Christ only, who said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
Then, you can experience this great salvation for yourself.
Videos are moving and their stories compelling, but the best thing you will ever experience is Jesus Christ coming to your rescue and doing for you what nobody else ever could.
Blessings~
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