A true story about Arland Williams who was one of six initial survivors of the Air Florida Flight 90 that crashed into the frozen Potomac River. He gave his final moments of life for five total strangers. This story is compared to how Christ gave His life for each of us. 

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On January 13, 1982, during a period of freezing weather, Air Florida Flight 90 took off from Washington D.C. Its wheels had just gone up when the plane then plunged from a mere 350 ft, struck the 14th Street Bridge and did a nose dive down into the frozen Potomac River.

Of the 80 people on board, only 6 people survived the initial crash and one of those people was an ordinary businessman by the name of Arland Williams. Arland clung to the wreckage of the plane while the news cameras filmed the whole scene from the shore.  Racing against time, a safety helicopter attempted to drop a rope into the frigid water for the survivors to grasp, and one at a time would carry each one back to the shore.

With each and every time the life-preserver at the end of the rope came into the water, Arland would grab the floatation device, and pass it on to one of the other survivors.  Many witnesses that were at the scene, including rescue personnel, were shocked that Arland, unconcerned with his own survival, kept handing his chance at survival off to the person next to him.

Helicopter pilot Donald Usher later recounted how he watched Arland do this heroic act until the other five survivors were on shore, and when he made his final trip back to the icy waters of the Potomac, Arland Williams, a survivor of a plane crash, had disappeared underneath the icy waters. Arland Williams gave his final moments of life for five total strangers.



 

Something to Ponder…

What if you were one of those five strangers that Arland gave his live-preserver to? Because of him, your life was spared. How would you feel towards Arland? 

Jesus Christ has given each of us a priceless gift. He has saved our lives, our eternal lives. He paid a price for our eternal salvation that no one else could pay, not even ourselves. 

1 Cor. 6:19 

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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Jeffrey R. Holland has said:

The purchase price for our fullness of joy – body and spirit eternally united – is the pure and innocent blood of the Savior of the world. We cannot then say in ignorance or defiance, “Well, it’s my life’ or worse yet, ‘It’s my body.” It is not. “Ye are not your own,” Paul said. “Ye are bought with a price.”

Just as you would feel immense gratitude and indebted to someone like Arland Williams, may we always feel gratitude and indebted to our loving Savior, Jesus Christ, for the priceless gift that He has given to each of us.

 

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