ARE YOU PREPARED FOR RESCUE OPERATIONS?

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

I have a grandson who has undertaken very serious training for rescue operations. He’s worked hard to discipline his body and mind in preparation for the dangerous rescue attempts he will face. He has acquired skills and tools for use at a moment’s notice.

There are, however, spiritual realities that involve even greater and more lasting dangers than those that are physical. Each of us enters this world in a defiled condition which places us under the wrath of the eternal, all powerful, holy, and all knowing creator. This creator declares,

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).

People who need physical rescue are often unconscious. They can offer no help to their rescuer. People in need of spiritual rescue are in an even more serious condition. They are spiritually dead. They have spirits that don’t truly connect with God’s holiness in any manner. Writing to folks who had been rescued from this dire condition, the apostle Paul wrote,

“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…” (Ephesians 2:1).

“Quickened” means “made alive.” Do those of us, whom Christ has saved, constantly avoid spiritual rescue opportunities because we’re unprepared? If so, you might find it helpful to obtain a supply of short written gospel messages. Take these with you, every day, and give them out when you interact with people. If you present God’s Word to folks, the Lord, Himself, will use it to accomplish His purpose.

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11).

Christ’s gospel is a message about salvation from sin. We are all sinners. Christ Jesus, God the Son, sacrificed His blood to pay the redemption price for His people. He uses His own Word to quicken their hearts and give them faith.

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

Will we go forth into each day equipped to engage in rescue operations, or will we walk away from the many souls needing rescue and leave them, unattended, in their spiritually comatose condition?

 

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