Ladder 49

Just finished watching an old movie -- Ladder 49 -- about a Baltimore fire fighter and all he, his family, and his fellow fire fighters went through for 10 years. His purpose for doing what he did, the thing he told his wife the day he met her in the super market, the thing he told his son in order to calm his fears, was "I save people." What a purpose! Reminds me of Someone else -- "I came to seek and to save that which is lost," Jesus said. Then He said to those who would call themselves by His name, "Go into all the world and make disciples ... " Perhaps we Christians should adopt the same purpose as the hero in Ladder 49 -- "I save people." Maybe then, we would be more like the One we love -- the One who loves us.