A magazine told a story about a young blind girl who was trapped in the fourth floor of an apartment building which caught fire. She was standing by the window with the billowing smoke engulfing her, with the intense heat surrounding her and the raging fire threatening her.
The firemen hurriedly came to the scene and prepared the safety net for her down below, while the fire chief emerged out of a vehicle and pleaded with her over an amplifier to jump: "We'll catch you! You just jump, we'll catch you!" But the girl could not bring herself to jump.
A very alert police officer came up with an idea. A short while later, a cruiser appeared with all the lights flashing and the sirens going. A man, the blind girl's father, jumped out of the backseat and run to the fire chief and grabbed the amplifier from his hand and directed it to her daughter up above and said: "Honey jump! I will catch you!"
She jumped. Time magazine said that she jumped from the fourth floor of the building into the net without breaking a single bone in her body, indicating that she was so relaxed in the fall, from the top of the building down into the net.
This is a picture of the call of salvation from God. We are on the verge of the fires of judgment. There is nothing we can do. But God has set up His safety net for us in the cross of Calvary, where the Savior died for all our sins.
And God no less, as it were, takes up His megaphone and pleads with us: "Sinner and yet loved, jump! Jump into the Savior and what He did on the cross, rely on what He did for your salvation. I will catch you through Him!"
Will you jump?
