Daily devotion – we are on a mission of rescue
This week in Western Australia a young man left his 18th year birthday party with his friends and was killed in a motor vehicle accident that night.
The news media covered the event and one young man, one of the deceased friends, was interviewed at the crash site later with others all grieving the loss of their young friend.
As he shared his grief to the news reporter he said these words, “During this time no one knows the sense of loneliness one feels right now!”
Those words echo the heart of the youth of Australia now who know not the love of God. So many young Australians are completely ignorant of Jesus Christ, who He is, what He did and what He means to all of us. Death is a brutal sadistic event that tears apart those who are impacted by its occurrence.
Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Heb 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
We who know Christ are on a mission to bring good news to a lost and lonely world. The difference Jesus makes when a loved one dies enables those left living, able to be comforted and supported by the precious love and grace of Christ.
2Co 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
2Co 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Death will strike every human on this planet! But Jesus came to remove the sting and power of death over us.
1 Corinthians 15: 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
As I watched that young man share his broken heart and the blackness of the loneliness he was experiencing my heart prayed that he would come to hear of Him who came to adopt the broken and the lonely into His family, the family of God.
May we be ever alert, ever vigil, to those around us who are suffering the darkness and sorrow of loneliness.
Luk 4:18
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;