Violet Jessop escaped death just by minutes as she got into one of the last lifeboats sent out from the sinking Titanic. When she was interviewed years later, she recalled the total indifference of everyone aboard the sinking ship. Known as “The Unsinkable Ship,” passengers and crew of the Titanic could not think otherwise. Even Violet herself hardly saw the need of getting into the lifeboat.
Violet, a stewardess, was urged for the second time by a male steward named Stanley to get into the lifeboat. She was fulfilling her duties when Stanley, his face white with fear, urged her for the second time to go quickly. She remembers the band was playing music to keep the passengers from panic.
As she looked at the Titanic from the lifeboat, she remembered how she counted the rows of lights on the ship. First there were six rows, then five, a short time later four, then three and finally two rows. She was horrified as she finally realized the boat was actually sinking!
As Violet intently watched the Titanic with so many people still on board, she saw the big ship give a lurch forward; then it sank with a thundering roar of underwater explosions!
The good news of God’s grace is still being announced all over the world. But people are the same today as those who were onboard the Titanic. They feel the world will go on and on, just as it always has, and there will be plenty of time to prepare for their life after death. But this world is a “sinking ship,” and we have the warning: “It is time to seek the Lord” (Hosea 10:12).
People around us are so busy with entertainments, the newest technology and the economy that they aren’t paying attention to the Biblical warnings that they are on a “sinking ship.” How tragic to forget or to ignore this important matter. “God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man [understands] it not” (Job 33:14).
This world is sinking fast! Time is running out! “Prepare to meet thy God” (Amos 4:12). “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9).
ML-11/20/2016