The country is captivated by the heroic actions seen in the ditching of the US Airways craft in the Hudson River. Captain Chesley Sullenberger is the hero of the hour, having expertly guided his craft to a perfect water touchdown, and losing none of the 155 passengers and crew.
God has given man the ability and desire to perfect marvelous skills, which sometimes are used to the saving of souls from disaster. The pilots and crews of the plane and the boats performed perfectly on the river last Thursday.
These skills require years of hard work to attain, in Capt. Sullenberger's case, forty years of flight and much study and labor. By such exertion, he became last Thursday over New York what many say was the perfect captain.
The thoughtful saint, however, should be driven by this affair to consider the perfections of our Savior the Lord Jesus. The Scripture tells us He was made the perfect captain of our salvation by suffering.
Jesus had no need for moral improvement, but even God's Son was, without suffering, unsuited to accomplish our redemption. He could only rescue us by the horrible suffering He bore in our place.
Because He suffered thus at Calvary, He is made a perfect Savior.
Captains have a duty to see their passengers arrive safe at journey's end. Captain Sullenberger was careful to ensure the last soul got safely to shore before he himself would leave his craft.
Our Lord Jesus also has a duty laid on Him by His Father: to lose not a single one of those given Him.
He will accomplish that duty perfectly because of the suffering He bore. The agony of Calvary made Him perfectly able to save to the end all who trust in Him!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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