A SEA captain related in B. sometime ago, a thrilling incident in his own experience:
I was sailing by the Island of Cuba, when the cry ran through the ship, "Man overboard."
I instantly seized a rope, and threw it over the side of the ship crying out to the man to grasp it as for his life. The sailor caught the rope, just as the ship was passing him. I immediately took another rope, and making a slip noose with it, attached it to the other, and slid it down to the struggling sailor, directed him to pass it over his shoulders and under his arms. He obeyed, and was rescued, but he had grasped that rope with such firmness,—with such a death grip,—that it took some time, before his hold relaxed; with such eagerness, indeed, he had clutched the object that was to save him, that the strands of the rope became imbedded in the flesh of his hands.
Dear reader, has not God let down from heaven a scarlet line to every sinner on the earth? Is not every strand a needed word from Him, and ought we not to lay hold of it as for our lives? Has He not provided a Saviour for you and me? Yes, dear children, the scarlet line may be used as a picture of Jesus' own precious blood, and God is this moment inviting you to grasp it for yourself.
Poor unsaved soul, you are in the same position as this drowning sailor, but he was obedient to the captain's word, and was saved.
"HE THAT HEARETH MY WORD, AND BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT SENT ME, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, AND SHALL NOT COME INTO CONDEMNATION, BUT IS PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE." John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
Messages of God’s Love 4/24/1932