“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
Harold Myers retired in 1990 and with his wife Lois, began to travel on cruises together. Harold read up on sea lore and came across a story about people who throw messages in bottles into the sea.
Something in the romance of that act caught his fancy. He resolved to give it a try. Sailing on the Carnival cruise ship Festival out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Harold tossed in four bottles over the course of several evenings. Each contained a dollar bill and a note in English and Spanish, and each was stopped with a cork and sealed with paraffin. The dollar, the note explained, was to cover postage for a response.
Two of his first three bottles were recovered.
Not long after he returned home from the Caribbean cruise, he received a letter from France. It turns out that a French vacationer on the island of St. Bart’s, some 30 miles from where Harold had tossed it in. Harold figured the bottle had traveled 30 miles in nine days. Not France, but not bad. "To tell you the truth," Harold says, "I was kind of shocked. I guess I really never expected to hear from anybody at all."
A bigger shock was to come. Another bottle tossed from the Festival bobbed around for almost 2,000 miles before being recovered in the open sea by a kayaking Canadian off the coast of Belize. The bottle drifted for four months and, Harold determined, survived a hurricane.
"That one really blew my mind. It kind of wowed me for a while," he said.
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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