Cling to the Cross
November 9, 2015
I Corinthians 15:3-4 “3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,”
David Sargent wrote about Clara Gantt who was on her way home from her daughter’s home in Blythewood, South Carolina, to her own home in Irmo on Sunday morning, October 4. She had plans to attend church services at her home church there, when she was abruptly stopped by floodwaters. The floodwaters lifted her car off of the pavement and swept it into a field. In desperation, she called 911, but her call didn’t go through. So, she called her son-in-law, who in turn called Gantt’s grandson to go to her rescue. Travis Catchings found his grandmother stranded in her car with torrents of water rushing over it. Her car was trapped in a ditch in front of a small church building. After a great struggle, Catchings was able to pry open the car door and get his grandmother out. A huge red cross that had been standing in front of the little church building had become uprooted and was lodging against the car. Grandmother and grandson clung to the cross in the hopes that someone would be able to rescue them. Gantt said, “I was literally, after I got out of the car, holding onto the cross. I was clinging to the cross.” They clung to the cross for five hours until help arrived, and they were saved from the rushing waters. Gantt said at the end of her ordeal, “Jesus is my Savior. This story is not about me; this is about what He did to save me.” No matter whatever else you do in this life, no matter where you go or what you do, cling to the cross. In the cross you find sweet salvation.
David Sargent wrote about Clara Gantt who was on her way home from her daughter’s home in Blythewood, South Carolina, to her own home in Irmo on Sunday morning, October 4. She had plans to attend church services at her home church there, when she was abruptly stopped by floodwaters. The floodwaters lifted her car off of the pavement and swept it into a field. In desperation, she called 911, but her call didn’t go through. So, she called her son-in-law, who in turn called Gantt’s grandson to go to her rescue. Travis Catchings found his grandmother stranded in her car with torrents of water rushing over it. Her car was trapped in a ditch in front of a small church building. After a great struggle, Catchings was able to pry open the car door and get his grandmother out. A huge red cross that had been standing in front of the little church building had become uprooted and was lodging against the car. Grandmother and grandson clung to the cross in the hopes that someone would be able to rescue them. Gantt said, “I was literally, after I got out of the car, holding onto the cross. I was clinging to the cross.” They clung to the cross for five hours until help arrived, and they were saved from the rushing waters. Gantt said at the end of her ordeal, “Jesus is my Savior. This story is not about me; this is about what He did to save me.” No matter whatever else you do in this life, no matter where you go or what you do, cling to the cross. In the cross you find sweet salvation.