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<\/a> Email This Post<\/a>\n\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p> <\/p>\n<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat\" style=\"font-size:1.5em\">C<\/span>aptain John Coutts was a fairly typical sea captain\u2005\u2014rough and ready for whatever life might bring\u2005\u2014\u2005but he was not ready for death. He was sick, at sea, and he knew he had little time left. He was afraid of death and of the eternity beyond it.<\/p>\n<p>The captain sent for his first mate and said, \u201cWilliams, I need you to pray for me. You know I\u2019ve been a godless and harsh man, and I know I\u2019m not going to make it this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a praying man, Captain. I don\u2019t know how to pray. I would if I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell bring a Bible and find something to read to me. I\u2019m not going to last much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have one, Captain. I\u2019m not religious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen send for Palmer. Maybe he knows how to pray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second mate came, and the captain said, \u201cPalmer, I\u2019m not going to get better, and I\u2019m not going to last until we reach port. I want you to pray for me. Ask God to have mercy on my sinful soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would if I could, Captain, but I haven\u2019t prayed since I was a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell then, do you have a Bible you could read to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, sir, I don\u2019t own a Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They searched the ship for a man who could pray or had a Bible. Finally one of the sailors told the captain he had seen a book that looked like a Bible in the hands of the cook\u2019s helper, young Willie Platt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo find the boy and see if he has a Bible,\u201d ordered Captain Coutts.<\/p>\n<p>The sailor hurried off to find Willie and asked him, \u201cWillie, do you have a Bible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, sir, but I only read it on my own time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry. Just get the Bible and go to the captain\u2019s cabin. He\u2019s dying and wants a Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willie got his Bible and reported to the captain.<\/p>\n<p>The captain said, \u201cSit down and find something that will help me. I\u2019m not going to live much longer. Find something about God having mercy on a sinner, and read it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willie remembered that his mother had him read Isaiah 53 just before he left home for sea. He turned to that wonderful chapter which tells so fully the love and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ in dying for lost sinners. He began to read it to the captain, verse by verse. When Willie got to the fifth verse\u2005\u2014\u2005\u201cHe was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed\u201d\u2005\u2014\u2005the captain, who was listening intently, realized that that verse told him what he needed to know to be saved from his sins. \u201cStop, boy!\u201d he ordered. \u201cThat sounds like it! Read it again.\u201d Once more Willie read the joyous words of hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAye, that\u2019s good\u2005\u2014\u2005that\u2019s it, I\u2019m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the captain\u2019s remark encouraged Willie, and he said, \u201cCaptain, when I was reading that verse at home, my mother made me put my name in it. May I read it to you that way?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, boy. Put your name in right where your mother told you, and read it to me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Willie had finished reading, the captain reached toward Willie and said, \u201cNow read it again, boy, and put my name, John, in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willie slowly read: \u201cHe was wounded for John\u2019s transgressions, He was bruised for John\u2019s iniquities: the chastisement of John\u2019s peace was upon Him; and with His stripes John is healed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Willie had finished, the captain dismissed him. He then leaned back on his bed and repeated over and over again those precious words of Isaiah 53:5, putting in his own name each time. And as he repeated them, the truth of those words entered his heart and filled his soul with joy. Finally, the captain had peace!<\/p>\n<p>In the little time he had left before he passed away, Captain John Coutts told everyone on his ship that the Christ of God\u2005\u2014\u2005the Man who had died on Calvary\u2019s cross\u2005\u2014\u2005was wounded for his transgressions, bruised for his iniquities, that the chastisement that he rightfully deserved had fallen on Jesus, his blessed Substitute, and with His stripes\u2005\u2014\u2005the punishment that Jesus bore\u2005\u2014\u2005he had been healed. His sins were gone forever!<\/p>\n<p>And how about you? Have you thought seriously about your sins and about this salvation that God is offering to you right now? Have you taken your true place as a helpless sinner before Him and trusted in His Son Jesus for healing from your sins? 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