We have a Saviour! Ephesians 5 In August 1957 four climbers were climbing the 6,000 ft near-vertical North Face in the Swiss Alps. Two German climbers disappeared and were never seen again. The other 2, Italian climbers, were stuck on two narrow ledges, 1000ft below the summit. The Swiss Alpine Club did not allow rescue attempts in that area, but a small group of Swiss climbers launched a private rescue effort to save the Italians. So they lowered a climber, Alfred Helleport, down the 6,000 ft North Face. Suspended on a cable a fraction of an inch thick they lowered him into the abyss. As I was lowered down the summit ... My comrades on top grew further and further distant, until they disappeared from sight. Then for the first time I peered down the abyss of the North Face of the Eiger. The terror of the sight robbed me of breath. The brooding blackness of the Face, falling away in almost endless expanse beneath me, made me look with awful longing to the thin cable disappearing above me in the most. I was a tiny human being dangling in space between heaven and hell. The sole relief from terror was ... my mission to save the climber below. This is the heart of the gospel. We were trapped, but in the presence of Jesus, God lowered himself into the abyss of our sin and suffering. In Jesus God became a tiny human being dangling between heaven and hell. This is Gods risky, costly, sacrificial rescue effort. We needed help. We needed a Saviour to penetrate this world and pull us put. He did. v23 He is the Saviour!
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:25:06 +0000
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