By Peter Kennedy
“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” – 1 John 5:13
In 2014, fisherman Konrad Fischer, was in the Baltic Sea when he pulled in a brown beer bottle in his catch. The bottle had been in the water for 101 years and contained a note. It was written by Richard Platz, who had thrown the bottle in the sea while on a hike with a nature appreciation group in 1913. He was 20 years old at the time.
Much of the postcard was indecipherable, although the address in Berlin on the front of the card was legible, as was the author's polite request that the note be sent by the finder to his home address.
A genealogist followed the clues and found his way to the door of his granddaughter, Angela Erdmann. Platz died six years before Erdmann was born, making the delivery of the postcard bittersweet.
"I knew very little about my grandfather, but I found out that he was a writer who was very open-minded, believed in freedom, and that everyone should respect each other," she said. "He did a lot for the young and later traveled with his wife and two daughters. It was wonderful because I could see where my roots came from."
Your Bible has arrived safely in your possession after being written more than a thousand years ago. It is Our Heavenly Father’s love letter. It is to those who believe in the name of the Son of God that they may know that they have eternal life. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that we know we have eternal life in Jesus Christ because of His Word.
“Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hear from heaven.” – Andrew Murray
God’s Word: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched--this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.” – 1 John 1:1
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