Fw: We all need to be rescued

Psalm 124:

7 We have escaped like a bird
    from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
    and we have escaped!

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,

    who made heaven and earth.

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Psalm 124 reminds us that there is a need for a rescue.  Normally we picture rescues for isolated events and unfortunate people who have found themselves in life threatening situations.  I have a friend who spent decades serving and rescuing in the U.S. Coast Guard on active duty and serves them still in civilian life.  One of the key missions of the Coast Guard is "Search and Rescue" and their motto is "Semper Paratus", which means 'always ready'.

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But there is another rescue that every single one of us needs.  We start life on earth needing rescue from the very beginning.  That's because the corrupting sin nature that has separated us from God is passed in the natural course of birth.  Consider Romans 5:12 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned

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Jesus is our "Coast Guard" and He is always ready to save....and we are all in need of this rescue.  Every single one of us needs to acknowledge that being lost is our starting point.  Like the bird that is trapped in verse 7 of Psalm 124 above...that is who we are.  But just as sin gained entrance through the failure of the first man, so God sent another man to rescue all: Romans 5:19 For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.  

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It's all about the rescue that every one of us needs and the rescuer who is 'always ready' to save.  If our starting point is the trap then our first step toward rescue is admitting that we are in the trap and we need the rescuer.  And you can be assured that He will come and pry open the trap and then you will fly!

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with love to all!

Rob Smith

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"Death is inevitable.  Life is a choice!"

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."