Karli’s Kantikoy:
The fact you are down isn't as important
as whether you are satisfied in being there.
“THE RESCUE”
Normally the flight from Nassau to Miami took Walter Wyatt, Jr., only sixty-five minutes. But on December 5, 1986, he attempted it after thieves had looted the navigational equipment in his Beechcraft. With only a compass and a hand-held radio, Walter flew into skies blackened by storm clouds. When his compass began to gyrate, Walter concluded he was headed in the wrong direction. He flew his plane below the clouds, hoping to spot something, but soon he knew he was lost. He put out a mayday call, which brought a Coast Guard Falcon search plane to lead him to an emergency landing strip only six miles away. Suddenly Wyatt’s right engine coughed its last and died. The fuel tank had run dry. Around 8 p.m. Wyatt could do little more than glide the plane into the water.
Wyatt survived the crash, but his plane disappeared quickly, leaving him bobbing on the water in a leaky life vest. With blood on his forehead, Wyatt floated on his back. Suddenly he felt a hard bump against his body. A shark had found him. Wyatt kicked the intruder and wondered if he would survive the night. He managed to stay afloat for the next ten hours. In the morning, Wyatt saw no airplanes, but in the water a dorsal fin was headed for him. Twisting, he felt the hide of a shark brush against him. In a moment, two more bull sharks sliced through the water toward him. Again he kicked the sharks, and they veered away, but he was nearing exhaustion. Then he heard the sound of a distant aircraft. When it was within a half mile, he waved his orange vest. The pilot radioed the Cape York, which was twelve minutes away: "Get moving, cutter! There’s a shark targeting this guy!" As the Cape York pulled alongside Wyatt, a Jacob’s ladder was dropped over the side. Wyatt climbed wearily out of the water and onto the ship, where he fell to his knees and kissed the deck. He’d been saved. (Peter Michelmore, Reader’s Digest, October, 1987.)
Walter didn’t need encouragement or better techniques. Nothing less than divine intervention could have rescued him from sure death. How much are we like Walter Wyatt when faced with temptation and trials. 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 says “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” David wrote in Psalm 118:8 "It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man." For “He (GOD) will rescue the poor when they cry to Him; He will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them. He feels pity for the weak and the needy, and He will rescue them. He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their lives are precious to Him” Psalm 72:12-14. Don’t wait for trials and tribulations to be nipping at you before you call on God.
Would you like to receive Jesus as your personal Savior?
It’s as easy as A-B-C.
Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior.
Believe He died & Rose again for your sins.
Confess and release your sins. “Father God, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I accept you as my personal Savior and Lord of my life. I believe in my heart that You died, rose again and will one day return for me. Lord, forgive me for I am a sinner. From this day forward, I will strive to live in a manner that will honor You. Thank you for Your promise that whosoever calls upon the name of Jesus shall be saved. Amen.”
