Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Titanic Tragedy - #8250

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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I had just arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia to speak. And much to his surprise, I asked the cabbie to take me to the cemetery. I walked along this line of markers that all had the same date—April 15, 1912. That was the fateful day the Titanic went down. 1500 passengers died, only 700 survived. But most of the people buried in that cemetery did not have to die that night.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and the lifeboats that they launched from the Titanic were half empty. Many didn’t get in a lifeboat. A lot of them did get a life jacket, though. And they’re crying out in the water, “Help me! Help me!” The people in the lifeboats were in a position to save them, but astoundingly, they just kept rowing away. When the funeral ships came three days later, they found 328 people floating in their life jackets frozen to death. Why did they die? Not because the Titanic sank, but because people who were already saved did nothing about the people all around them who were dying.

Dear God, is that us? Thanks to Jesus, we’re in the lifeboat; we’re saved from an unthinkable eternity. But we’re surrounded by people who aren’t in yet. What are we doing to rescue them? We’re enjoying this fellowship of the already saved; singing our lifeboat songs, going to our lifeboat committee meetings, with dying people all around us for whom we are the only human hope.

Here’s our Lord’s command: “Rescue those being led away to death” (Proverbs 24:11 ). When we see the people around us with the eyes of Jesus, we’ll see who they really are—future inhabitants of hell unless someone rescues them.

Would you turn your lifeboat around and spend whatever days you have left pulling as many people into that lifeboat as you can? Go to our website for more help on how to do that, would you? It’s ALifeThatMatters.org.

This radio program references: Proverbs 24:11