As we approach the anniversary of the tragic day that changed our nation forever, just a decade ago, every American is forced to relive that sad moment. I love the way former football coach Joe Gibbs spoke of it. He wrote:
There are few symbols of bravery more compelling than that of New York City’s first responders streaming into Towers One and Two on this cloudless day in 2001. If not for those squadrons of emergency crews, heavy with rescue gear, bounding up ring after ring of suffocating stairwells, the tragedy that claimed thousands of human lives could have easily killed tens of thousands.
We can hardly fathom such extreme levels of heroism. We don’t quite know how to express our awe and gratitude toward those who risk their lives—every day, just as on this one horrific day—to save others.
But even with their daring sense of courage and self-sacrifice, even with hours of rescue training and contingency planning, these modern-day heroes are not able to save everyone. There are limits to what they can do. Time runs out. Gravity outweighs them.
How much awe and praise, then, should go to the Lord Jesus Christ, who’s never encountered a life he couldn’t save? No matter how black the sin or how impossible the situation, no matter how late the hour or how heavy the damage, he is able to snatch men from life’s ultimate danger zone, saving them from eternal death.
In the light of this we need to think of what Jesus said in John 6:40,”And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
If you’ve never received Christ as your Lord and Savior, I urge you to do so this very moment. He is willing and able to rescue you from your sins, giving you everlasting life and eternal hope!
