Two fishermen were in a boat near Thunder Bay, Ontario, when they noticed a loon acting rather strangely. Loons are water birds, much like ducks, that can swim long distances underwater as they catch fish to eat. They usually do not let people get close to them. They will dive underwater, coming up much farther away. But the loon that these two fishermen were watching actually came right up beside the boat. It even allowed them to pick it up!
The men lifted the loon into their boat, and then they could see that it had a fishing line wrapped around its beak, neck and wings. It also had four hooks and three wire leaders stuck in its body. The men took the loon to shore where they cut off the fishing line and removed the hooks with pliers. While they worked to free the loon, it remained quiet until they finished.
“I really think this bird came to our boat for help,” one of the fishermen remarked. “During that painful process of removing the hooks, it never struggled or made a sound. We even took a picture of it before we let it swim away.”
Somehow the loon seemed to know that it could be helped by the men. Boys and girls and grown-ups have someone special they can go to for help. They can be healed not just from illness, but be healed from their sins, a disease each one of us has that needs the healing remedy from the Great Physician. This Great Physician’s name is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only One who can take away sin and give peace and comfort. The blood He shed on Calvary’s cross is God’s remedy for sin.
The Lord Jesus said, “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:31-3231And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 32I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Luke 5:31‑32)). Have you gone to the Great Physician for the healing remedy for your sins?
ML-10/26/2003