Making The Port Of Heaven

Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

Amos 4:12

The steamship London sank in the Bay of Biscay on January 11, 1866, amid a terrible storm. Only one lifeboat was launched before the great ship sank, and only three passengers survived. Among the dead was Daniel Draper, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher. In the hours before the ship was lost, he reportedly went from person to person, evangelizing the passengers and crew, and he led virtually the whole ship to faith in Christ. The last words anyone heard him utter were these: “Those of you who are not converted, now is the time; not a moment to be lost, for in a few minutes we shall all be in the presence of the Judge.”

Our world is in a storm, and many are sinking in life’s waves. Revelation 20 vividly describes the coming judgment at the Great White Throne Judgment of God at the end of history. If you don’t know Christ as Savior, there’s not a moment to be lost. Prepare to meet God by confessing Christ as Lord of your life today.

The captain tells us there is no hope; that we must all perish. But I tell you there is hope, hope for all. Although we must die, and shall never again see land, we may all make the port of heaven.

DANIEL DRAPER, ABOARD THE LONDON