During the helicopter rescue of the survivors from the wrecked Air Florida 737, Paramedic Gene Windsor witnessed the supreme sacrifice of one man in the frigid waters of the Potomac.
Gene passed the safety line out of the helicopter to this man twice, and both times he passed it to other people. After all of the other survivors had been carried to shore, Gene returned to the wreckage in search of the man who had given away the rope. "We had decided that we would go after him if he were within sight, even under water," Gene said. "But he was not there! He had gone under!"
"I've never seen one give such a commitment as he did," Gene continued. "He gave the ultimate!"
This unknown man had sacrificed his life so that others might live. He reminds us of the Lord Jesus Christ who gave His life that you and I might live. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down His life for His friends." John 15:1313Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13). "God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8).
My Individual Savior
My salvation depends upon my accepting Christ as my individual Savior, just as if He had died for me alone: with David I claim, as he did, "The Lord is my Shepherd." Psalm 23:11<<A Psalm of David.>> The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1).
It is I, as an individual, who deserves His wrath; it is I, as an individual, who am hid in His love.