Steve Scheibner was supposed to fly from Boston to Los Angeles on September 11th, 2001, but was bumped by a pilot who had seniority over him, Tom McGuinness. That flight that he was supposed to be on, American Airlines Flight 11, flew into the World Trade Center in New York City. Scheibner’s life objective since that day, when he realized that he was living on borrowed time, has been, “To seek, trust, and glorify God through humble service and continual prayer. To raise up qualified disciples as quickly as possible. So that one day I might hear God say, ‘Well done my good and faithful servant!'” An inciteful Scheibner said that he realized that not only had somebody died in his place once, but twice, Tom was the second to do it, Jesus did it first. Scheibner said, “He hung, and he bled, and he suffered on a cross to pay a price for me that I wasn’t qualified to pay. I couldn’t have hung on the cross. I didn’t have the same qualifications. So one guy sat in a seat that I should have sat in, the other hung and bled on a cross. One is far more significant than the other. That’s not to trivialize what happened to Tom. That’s to elevate and glorify what God did for me and for mankind on the cross.”
(H/T: Swiss Defence League and Partnering With Eagles)
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