Worth the Risk
This week the world held its breath as teams worked tirelessly to rescue twelve children and their soccer coach from deep beneath a mountain in northern Thailand.
One volunteer, a former Thai Royal Navy Seal, gave his life when he was overtaken by a flash flood, his oxygen supply not enough to sustain him in the powerful waters. An expert diver, avid runner, and cyclist, he was trained and equipped with the highest possible skills for the task. He knew the risk he was taking and took it anyway.
The thirteen lives stranded in the caves were worth it.
We can be assured that he asked the questions necessary to assess the risk he took that eventually ended his life. The media posed questions from every possible angle and experts from diverse fields rallied to construct the best answers and plan for rescue.
All thirteen human souls were brought safely out early Tuesday morning.
The Navy Seal diver who gave his life earlier in the week will not be forgotten in the present celebrations of life and survival. He assessed the danger, he questioned the process, and in the end, chose to help no matter the personal cost.
We are inspired and sobered by this man’s great act. The globe rallies around his amazing sacrifice, and
We are enamored because, beneath it all, our hearts are beholding a glimpse of heaven through his rare deed.
The universal human desire for something truly honorable, a genuine act of selflessness, echoed through the nations this week as we cheered and wept while watching those previously unknown boys and their coach emerge safely from the very depths of the earth, from certain death, had help not come.
The Bible tells us in Romans 5:6-8 “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Our God is rare among gods!
He came himself, and He gave his life to rescue ours. He deemed us worthy of His great sacrifice. He was acutely aware of the risk.
He took on flesh and yielded to the human agony of death on a cross. He shouted the question, “Why? as He hung there, bearing our shame, our sin, and our fear upon Himself.
And in the end, He yielded, that we might live.
In the early morning hours three days later, our souls were brought safely out from the darkness of certain death, had help not come.
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