...Sydney...

Sunday comes again...We dropped Andrew and Stephen to domestic airport... sydney...hiks... really want to go there...miss all those fun stuff last year...pancake the rock, ayam panggang 99, gelattisimo...hehe....miss Ratna, Arief, Siska, n all of the syd youth (Though I just known some of the people there for a very short time but fell like had been known u guys for years).. (This syd pic to remind me about those lovely memories hehe)..for andrew, stephen, belinda, adri and ado and everyone from Indo who are in sydney now...u guys will really enjoy this trip especially the Hills conf will really bless everyone...

Neway, went straight to church....many had gone for holiday..tante preached...really blessed by the sermon. There is 1 story that really touched me...it's about a man named John Harper, he and his 6 years old daughter were some of the people that were in the Titanic.According to documented reports, as soon as it was apparent that the ship was going to sink, John Harper immediately took his daughter to a lifeboat. It is reasonable to assume that this widowed preacher could have easily gotten on board this boat to safety; however, it never seems to have crossed his mind. He bent down and kissed his precious little girl; looking into her eyes he told her that she would see him again someday.

That night 1528 people went into the frigid waters. John Harper was seen swimming frantically to people in the water leading them to Jesus before the hypothermia became fatal. Mr. Harper swam up to one young man who had climbed up on a piece of debris. Rev. Harper asked him between breaths, "Are you saved?" The young man replied that he was not.

Harper then tried to lead him to Christ only to have the young man who was near shock, reply no. John Harper then took off his life jacket and threw it to the man and said "Here then, you need this more than I do..." and swam away to other people. A few minutes later Harper swam back to the young man and succeeded in leading him to salvation. Of the 1528 people that went into the water that night, six were rescued by the lifeboats. One of them was this young man on the debris. Four years later, at a survivors meeting, this young man stood up and in tears recounted how John Harper had led him to Christ. Mr. Harper had tried to swim back to help other people, yet because of the intense cold, had grown too weak to swim. His last words before going under in the frigid waters were "Believe on the Name of the Lord Jesus and you will be saved." This servant of God did what he had to do. While other people were trying to buy their way onto the lifeboats and selfishly trying to save their own lives, John Harper gave up his life so that others could be saved.

I'm so amazed and touched by this story...how a man can really focus on doing God's will even until his last breath...