He Chose To Save You! [Joy]

An elderly preacher visiting a church told the following story

“A father, his son, and his son’s friend, were sailing when a storm overturned their boat sweeping all three into the water. Grabbing a rescue line, in a split second the father had to make the most excruciating decision of his life - which boy to save and which to sacrifice. He knew his son had accepted Christ and his friend had not. Anguished, the father yelled, “l love you son” and threw the rope to his son’s friend. By the time he’d pulled the boy back to the boat his son had disappeared. The boy’s body was never recovered. The father knew his son would step into eternity with Jesus and couldn’t bear the thought of his friend facing eternity without Christ”.

At the end of the service a teenage boy approached the old preacher and said “ a nice story, but what father in his right mind would sacrifice his son’s life in the hopes that the other boy would become a Christian?” - “You’ve got the point”, the old preacher said, “it gives you tiny glimpse into what it must have been like for God to sacrifice his only Son for us. You see....I was that father, and your pastor was my son’s friend.”