YOU ARE MY SAVIOUR - AREN'T YOU?
29th Jul 2020
Years ago my husband and a friend were sailing a very lively sailing dinghy off the south coast of England. They capsized and could not keep the boat upright. The situation became very dangerous as they were losing strength, and were a mile off-shore, Charles exclaimed, “We really need saving.” God was good and within minutes a boat appeared out of the mist, plucked them from the water, wrapped them in space blankets and sailed directly to Brighton, where they were blue lighted to hospital. It could so easily have been fatal, but God answered a desperate prayer and sent a saviour.
When the angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds, he announced Jesus as the Saviour. Mary had been previously told that her baby would bring salvation from sin, but a Saviour is more comprehensive and inclusive. Certainly we need the salvation that cleanses us from sin and restores us to a relationship with God, but we need a Saviour whose power can rescue us from all sorts of trouble and danger. An old hymn puts it this way:
Ask the Saviour to help you,
Comfort strengthen and keep you
He is willing to aid you
He will carry you through.
Psalm 50:15 says, “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honour me.”
Our Saviour Jesus is able to address every situation we are faced with. He is the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. He is wisdom, counsel, has all knowledge and ability; nothing is impossible to Him.
A former muslim family fled Iran to Pakistan. Destitute refugees with small children they found themselves starving. The wife sent her husband to play with the children and take their minds off their hunger. She locked the door of her room and cried out to God, where was He, why wasn’t He helping, if He was so good why didn’t He help?
When the tears abated she got up from her knees and went into her kitchen. On the table was a container of milk and a knife - no-one had entered the house. The milk was food that they needed but why the knife? God spoke to her and said they were so malnourished the milk would be easily digested, the knife was to cut her off from the empty way of life they had escaped from and to enter fully into a relationship with her loving Father God, and Jesus her Saviour and provider.
by Joyce Sibthorpe
