The Grecian vacationers turned their boat around and pulled up beside the nearly drowned man. While the husband steered their craft, his wife leaned over the rocking boat, reached out with one hand and pulled the immigrant into their vessel. He was so exhausted he couldn’t move.
Mohammad had stepped into a small boat in Turkey with 39 other refugees trying to escape Syria’s civil war. When the group lost an oar, he offered to jump in the water and retrieve it. But the tides and currents pulled him away. So they tossed him a lifejacket. For 13 hours he clung to it, hoping to be rescued. Ten more minutes and he would have died.
Mohammad was passed by many boats that never saw him. After hours in the choppy water, drained and disoriented, he couldn’t even shout for help. When the couple pulled him into their boat, he was shaking and had hypothermia. The husband, who was a doctor, gave him first aid. His wife grabbed towels and wrapped him up and hugged him to get him warm. Mohammad, overcome by it all, broke down and wept.
The wife later confessed, “I didn’t think at any point that what we were doing was dangerous or if it was illegal. I only knew that a human soul was in danger and trying to save this person was for me the most natural thing in the world.”
That’s the perfect description of a true witness for Christ. “With one hand the workers would take hold of Christ, while with the other they would grasp sinners and draw them to the Savior” (Evangelism, p. 293).
Are you ready to make a New Year’s resolution to reach out a hand when you see someone drowning in sin?
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