Captain Blount was standing one day at a window where he could command a beautiful view of the harbor. He was watching a ship sailing out to open sea.
As he watched, he observed her suddenly tremble; then she began to settle and quickly sank beneath the blue waters of the Mediterranean. She had struck a rock; and so great was the gash in her side that she instantly filled with water and went down.
In a brief moment, and with little warning, every man on board was in need of salvation. Little had they prepared for such a disaster. All had been going well. Then she crashed upon a rock and immediately went to the bottom.
The solemn sight was the voice of God to the Captain's conscience. So strongly did it awaken him to a sense of his need as a sinner that he instantly fell upon his knees. Filled with the horror of such sudden destruction, he cried out, "Such will be the shipwreck of my soul, O Lord, if Thou dust not undertake for me!"
He saw himself now as a sinner in desperate need of salvation. Crying for mercy he came to the Lord Jesus Christ, and by faith found peace through His precious blood.
Oh, sinner, unsaved and unforgiven, awaken! Have you thought of your danger? There is but a step between you and death. Thank God, this is the day of salvation; and no soul ever looks to Christ for blessing who does not receive it at once.