A SPECIAL DEPENDENCE

“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” – Jeremiah 33:3

 

In April 1912, Constance Gracie awoke in the middle of the night in New York. Seized with anxiety, she began to pray. Her prayer book opened “by chance” to the prayer ‘For Those at Sea.’ Constance prayed earnestly until about 5:00 A.M. when the heaviness and the burden lifted from her heart. She rested quietly until eight in the morning when her sister "came softly to the door, newspaper in hand, to gently break the tragic news that the Titanic had sunk."

Constance’s husband, Colonel Archibald Gracie, was on the Titanic. Archibald remembers: “I was in a whirlpool, swirling round and round, as I still tried to cling to the railing as the ship plunged to the depths below. Down, down, I went: it seemed a great distance... [Ascending back to the surface] I could see no Titanic. She had entirely disappeared beneath the surface of the ocean without a sign of any wave. A thin light-gray smoky vapor hung like a pall a few feet above the sea. There arose the most horrible sounds ever heard by mortal man, the agonizing cries of death from over a thousand throats.”

Colonel Archibald Gracie was pulled into a lifeboat. He later shared his testimony, basing it on Psalm 130:1, “Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.” Colonel Gracie wrote, “I know of no recorded instance of Providential deliverance more directly attributable to... prayer.”

 

Jesus desires us to develop a special dependence on Him. Today in prayer, humbly come before the Lord, call on Him, and trust in Him by faith.

 

"Never does he who clings to God despair, because he is never without resources." - Jacques B. Bossuet

 

God’s Word: “Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” – Jeremiah 29:12