To be at death's door with only enough strength to call on a name—to be heard and delivered because he called—was the experience of a young farmer in Manitoba not long ago.
He had just driven into a field of flax with his tractor-combine outfit and harvested a short swath. In order to test the moisture content of the crop, he stopped the tractor and with the engine still running climbed into the grain tank. But as he reached down for a handful of the seed his jacket caught in the rotating auger.
Realizing that he was being helplessly drawn into the machinery, he clung frantically to the edge of the grain tank while the auger stripped off his clothes, tearing his muscles and tendons in the terrible ordeal.
With a final effort he managed to hoist himself out of the grain tank and stumble to the tractor cab. Grasping the CB radio receiver he called one word—a name: "Dad!"
Back at the farmstead his father picked up the call. Sensing something was wrong he immediately sped to the field in a truck.
Covering his badly injured son with a parka and laying him in the truck he whisked him to the hospital 25 miles away. Here the young man eventually recovered.
He was saved by calling a name—the name of one he trusted.
May this incident remind us of God's merciful provision for every poor helpless sinner. To every living soul, each "appointed once to die, and after this the judgment," (Heb. 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)), God has declared: "Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved." Acts 2:2121And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Acts 2:21). Reader, have you called?