We ask a special prayer for the McIntosh family, as we lost
Mary at 4:30 p.m. last Sunday.
Growing up we heard a lot about chivalry, the age of King Author and the Knights of the Round Table (however I don’t know why the table was round). We watched its depiction in Hollywood
classics, as men would spread their coats across a puddle of water so that a damsel crossing the street would not get wet, just as well holding open doors and the slight tip of the hat were customary as well in what we consider the golden years, as a sign of distinct courtesy.
I can recall an old cartoon, Penelope Pitstop, in which the antagonist was named, the Hooded Claw (look him up), and he would seek to kidnap her. Once he succeeded in doing so, one of
his plots was to bind her up and lay her across the path of an oncoming train. As news traveled of her demise, her heroes in waiting (seven of them) rushed to rescue in a car named “Chugaboom” (not relevant), arriving in the nick of time, as the train barreled down the track at full speed, and they would always echo the oft repeated phrase, “to the rescue.”
What I've realized as a Christian is, our lives can serve as testimonies, our words can soothe and provide comfort, our presence can offer shelter, but what took me a some time to grasp was that in spite of my best efforts, and no matter how frustrating it might be, I do not have the capacity to save anyone. That is reserved for God only. I can offer, ask, urge, plead and beg, but it was not I that bore the cost of redemption, … Jesus did through his death and resurrection. It is a task far too great, an immeasurable cost, to be exact, for humanity to forbear. It is
not until we or they yield and come to the conclusion that we are incapable of saving ourselves that God is able to respond.
The Mississippi Mass Choir echoed
such sentiment in the chorus to the song, I Need Thee.
I need Thee, O I need Thee,
Every hour I need Thee!
O bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee!
It is not a collective cry, but an individual
plea.
Today’s Podcast is titled.
To the Rescue
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace
you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own; it is the gift of
God,
