You can't show a greater love for people than James Harrison demonstrated. And he did it for people he didn't even know.
Harrison, a member of the Ouachita Baptist University choir, was returning home from Europe with his fellow singers. As their plane was landing in Little Rock, Arkansas, it was hit by heavy rains and high winds. The jet skidded off the runway and hit a bank of light, ripping open the fuselage.
As chaos reigned and flame broke out in the mangled plane, Harrison began to help others. Over and over, he pulled passengers to safety and ran back to the plane for more. On his last trip into the burning wreckage, he was overcome with smoke. He didn't make it out alive.
At his funeral, the choir director quoted John 15:13, "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." Jesus was really speaking of his own death on our behalf, and the choir leader pointed out the value of this ultimate sacrifice.
We may never be called upon to make the kind or sacrifice James made during that horrible tragedy. Yet every day we have opportunities to set aside our comfort to love our neighbours (Mk.12:31). How much love do we show?
>>> J. David Branon

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