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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: RESCUE
First it was the recent tense, dramatic evacuation from Afghanistan. Then we barely blinked and people were being rescued from subway stations and trains in New York City after massive flooding following Hurricane Ida.
Everywhere we look, it seems, desperation can be found.
Everywhere we look, it seems, people are in need of rescue.
And the reality is, even when it doesn’t look like desperation on the surface, the need for rescue is there—on the inside. Perhaps most for those who pretend they don’t need it.
How many of us have thought we could save ourselves? How many of us continue to think so?
Maybe you don’t think you’re in need of rescue right now. But judgement day is coming, and your efforts alone won’t be enough.
The truth is, we are all in need of rescue—divine rescue. Rescue that can only come from a perfect sacrifice. The person of Jesus Christ.
He alone can provide the complete and lasting rescue that we so desperately need—whether we admit it or not.
He is the only Way, the only Truth, the only Life. The only way to be saved.
Our only Hope.
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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
Hello, dear Kate. Slowly working my way back into the rhythms of this community.
Thank you for this simple, beautiful reminder to rest in the good grace of Christ Jesus. In Him our rescue is found.
That is so true. You can’t but stop, think and be challenges
There was a time God went unheeded
for I’d placed Him on a dusty shelf,
not understanding that I needed
Him to save me from myself.
I thought I was a decent bloke,
compassionate and just,
and it was there that pride awoke
to turn self-love to lust,
a kind of panting grasping need
that left me quite undone,
a planting ground for Satan’s seed
that I might outshine the Son
and reign instead, imperial
ruler of my funeral.
Amen!!!
Truth!