Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom.

Isaiah 1.9

Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.

Survivors by God's mercy was written by Kenneth Peterson and read by West Ward.

Romans chapter 9 verses 22 through 29.

What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great

patience the objects of his wrath, prepared for destruction. What if he did this

to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance

for glory, even us whom he also called, not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

As he says in Hosea, I will call them my people,

who are not my people, and I will call her my loved one who is not my loved one. And in the very

place where it was said to them, you are not my people, there they will be called children of the living God. Isaiah cries out

concerning Israel, though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant

will be saved. For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality. It is just as Isaiah said previously,

unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom. We would have

been like Gomorrah. Survivors by God's Mercy, written by Kenneth Peterson.

Charles Jocken was a sailor from the young age of 11. He served as a baker on a number of

ships and in 1912 got hired onto a cruise ship sailing out of Southampton, England. That ship,

the Titanic, hit an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic. As the ship went down, Jocchin helped

people into lifeboats. He himself stood atop the end of the Titanic as it sunk vertically

into the water. Miraculously, he survived.

Thirty years later during World War II, Charles was on another ship, the RMS, Oregon.

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