Quotes about Rescue

I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit. Jonah 2:6

As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord. My prayer came to You, to Your holy temple. Jonah 2:7

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. (2 Sam. 22:17—18)

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. Colossians 1:13

I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. Exodus 3:7

Of course, maybe that's what I love best of all about God. We've never gone so far that we can't be fetched.

We live like we are on a pleasure cruise, when we are really on a rescue mission from God.

They cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. PSALM 107:19-20

The truth is that Jesus didn't come to rescue us from our humanity; He entered into our humanity to rescue us from our sinfulness. He didn't come to save us from being sexual creatures; He became one of us to save us from the reign of sin and lust, which ruins our sexuality. That

Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave; Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen, Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.

God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.

Even in the darkest moment, before death snatches man's last breath, God is willing to save a lost soul.