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That Jesus intimately shares in our sufferings is sometimes hard to believe. Yet Hebrews reassures us that this is so.
Douglas V. Steele tells us of the redemptive love of Christ in this example.
"In the strait between the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan, an ore boat was struck in a collision and sank. Several years later a salvage vessel was sent to raise this sunken ship. The salvage steamer had a huge prow and forward structure. After a diver had gone down and fastened cables under the sunken ship, water was pumped into the prow of the salvage vessel until it was brought down almost to the level of the water.
Then the water in the salvage ship's hull was slowly pumped out so that her buoyancy lifted the sunken ship and made it possible for the salvage boat to steam a few hundred yards toward shore until her load struck bottom again. This process was repeated time after time until the sunken ship was so near the top of the water that the air chambers could be put along side to hold it up.... Apparently at no less cost than allowing itself to be buried repeatedly in the water over its sunken hull, could the salvage ship lift its prize to the surface. God is Christ could do no less.
(Douglas V. Steele, Dimensions of Prayer, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1962, p. 16.)
--Hedahl
Douglas V. Steele tells us of the redemptive love of Christ in this example.
"In the strait between the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan, an ore boat was struck in a collision and sank. Several years later a salvage vessel was sent to raise this sunken ship. The salvage steamer had a huge prow and forward structure. After a diver had gone down and fastened cables under the sunken ship, water was pumped into the prow of the salvage vessel until it was brought down almost to the level of the water.
Then the water in the salvage ship's hull was slowly pumped out so that her buoyancy lifted the sunken ship and made it possible for the salvage boat to steam a few hundred yards toward shore until her load struck bottom again. This process was repeated time after time until the sunken ship was so near the top of the water that the air chambers could be put along side to hold it up.... Apparently at no less cost than allowing itself to be buried repeatedly in the water over its sunken hull, could the salvage ship lift its prize to the surface. God is Christ could do no less.
(Douglas V. Steele, Dimensions of Prayer, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1962, p. 16.)
--Hedahl
