Not long ago, someone send me an e-mail about a story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Sichuan Earthquake (1998). I’m sure most of you might have read this story before, but if you haven’t done so then take your time to read it;
‘After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.
With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure. He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building.
For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his hand through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,
“A child! There is a child!”
The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a three month old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.
The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,
The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a three month old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.
The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,
“If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.”
This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Everybody that read the message wept.
“If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.”
Such is the mother’s love for her child!
[I want to give credit to Jade Brandilyn Joy, whoever you are, for writing this story. Even if Jade was not the writer, I thank Jade anyway for spreading this amazing story. Thank you.]
What a moving story. I remember another true story about The Father’s Sacrifice at Golgotha that happened around 2000 years ago. He died not on the ground but hang on a tree. His body was not covered with dust or crashed by collapsed building but was covered with his own blood that was stripped heavily. He wasn’t kneeling but stretched up in agonies. His two hands didn’t support anyone as per say, but instead two huge Roman’ nails were driven at his wrists on that rough crossbeam. He not only saves a child but many children, including His own enemies… What a love story. C.S. Lewis writes, “The Son of God became the Son of Man so that sons of men may become sons of God.”
Here is God’s text message to you,
“This is real love – not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son [Jesus Christ] as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” (1 John 4:10NLT)
Jesus loves you. This is the story of the beautiful letdown, The Father’s Sacrifice at Golgotha.
THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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