Rescued
Kidnapped!!!
Abducted!!
Snatched away!!!
Child stolen!!!
These are all headlines that place a fear in any parents hearts. Who would take someone’s child? How would I feel if it was my child? What would I do?
In the USA there is a kidnapping alert app for mobile phones called Amber Alert. It sends a loud warning sound to the mobile phones with that app’, giving details of any missing child. It enables the public to be aware and to keep a look out so the recovery of the child can be quicker.
Currently one of the most famous cases of kidnap currently in the media is of a British child called Madeleine McCann. In 2007, the then 3 year old Madeleine, was kidnapped from a holiday unit in Portugal. Her parents were devastated. They have set up a world wide campaign to find their daughter. Her photo has been in every country...on billboards...posters...in airports...on t shirts and in newspapers. Millions and millions of dollars have been raised to investigate into her disappearance. People from around the world have thought they have sited her and those sitings have been investigated from Morocco to Spain to New Zealand. Since 2007 almost every week this famous case hits the headlines somewhere in the world and always in Britain. The Portuguese Police have led a full investigation...private detectives have been hired...now Scotland Yard, the world’s famous investigators are working on the case.The parents are leaving no stone unturned in the rescue of their daughter.
Why are Madeleine’s parents putting all of their resources, time, energies and their entire life into rescuing their daughter Madeleine? They do it because of love. They love Madeleine.
It makes me think that all of us have been kidnapped and we don’t even know it. This one solitary planet in an entire universe has been hijacked. Back in the garden of Eden satan, through deception, kidnapped this planet and it’s dominion passed into his hands. Each one of us finds ourselves stolen away from God. God has set in motion an entire search and rescue operation. His love for us drives Him to do everything He can to bring us back to Him. He has emptied heaven of all it’s resources, time and energies in our rescue. He leaves no stone unturned in working to bring us back to Him. God’s own son even laid down His own life to bring about our full and complete rescue.
Col 1:13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son
Gal 1:3,4 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen.
By the work of Jesus Christ, we have been rescued from the domain of darkness and we have been returned to our rightful Father who loves us, created us and saved us.
The question remains. Do I want to be rescued?
Abducted!!
Snatched away!!!
Child stolen!!!
These are all headlines that place a fear in any parents hearts. Who would take someone’s child? How would I feel if it was my child? What would I do?
In the USA there is a kidnapping alert app for mobile phones called Amber Alert. It sends a loud warning sound to the mobile phones with that app’, giving details of any missing child. It enables the public to be aware and to keep a look out so the recovery of the child can be quicker.
Currently one of the most famous cases of kidnap currently in the media is of a British child called Madeleine McCann. In 2007, the then 3 year old Madeleine, was kidnapped from a holiday unit in Portugal. Her parents were devastated. They have set up a world wide campaign to find their daughter. Her photo has been in every country...on billboards...posters...in airports...on t shirts and in newspapers. Millions and millions of dollars have been raised to investigate into her disappearance. People from around the world have thought they have sited her and those sitings have been investigated from Morocco to Spain to New Zealand. Since 2007 almost every week this famous case hits the headlines somewhere in the world and always in Britain. The Portuguese Police have led a full investigation...private detectives have been hired...now Scotland Yard, the world’s famous investigators are working on the case.The parents are leaving no stone unturned in the rescue of their daughter.
Why are Madeleine’s parents putting all of their resources, time, energies and their entire life into rescuing their daughter Madeleine? They do it because of love. They love Madeleine.
It makes me think that all of us have been kidnapped and we don’t even know it. This one solitary planet in an entire universe has been hijacked. Back in the garden of Eden satan, through deception, kidnapped this planet and it’s dominion passed into his hands. Each one of us finds ourselves stolen away from God. God has set in motion an entire search and rescue operation. His love for us drives Him to do everything He can to bring us back to Him. He has emptied heaven of all it’s resources, time and energies in our rescue. He leaves no stone unturned in working to bring us back to Him. God’s own son even laid down His own life to bring about our full and complete rescue.
Col 1:13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son
Gal 1:3,4 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen.
By the work of Jesus Christ, we have been rescued from the domain of darkness and we have been returned to our rightful Father who loves us, created us and saved us.
The question remains. Do I want to be rescued?
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