Admiral Thomas Williams, in command of a ship crossing the Atlantic ocean on September 8, 1799 , felt a surprising and unexplained urge to steer toward the uninhabited Ascension island. It seemed there was no reason to do so. But he ordered a change of course. His crew did so reluctantly. Approaching the island, a sailor spotted a while flag. On the island they found more than a dozen shipwrecked men, destitute and near starvation. They had been praying for a miracle- someone to rescue them in the nick of time. It reminds one of the circumstance surrounding the coming of Christ into the world. Paul, wrote in the New Testament book of Galatians, “…when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son….to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption…” As Admiral Williams rescued those lost shipwrecked men, Christ came “in the nick of time”, to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Pastor Alex Rockwell