On June 30, 1859, one of the greatest tightrope walkers in history, Charles Blondin, became the first man in history to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Approximately 25,000 people watched him walk a 1,000 feet line suspended above the raging falls without any safety nets. When he safely reached the Canadian side, the crowd cheered with thunderous applause.
On another occasion, he attempted to cross The Falls once again - this time, however, with a wheelbarrow. The crowd gasped as he carefully loaded the front wheel of the wheelbarrow on the tightrope. He turned to the crowd and asked if they believed he could do it using the wheelbarrow. Everyone cheered in approval. They all believed he could..
He turned to a reporter who was covering the event. He looked straight at him and asked the question, “Do you believe I can do this?” The reporter responded with a big smile, “Yes! I believe you can do it.”
“Good”, the tightrope walker responded. “Get in the wheelbarrow!!!”
If we are going to be people who live their faith, we need “wheelbarrow faith”. We must have faith that doesn’t just “say” we believe, we have to truly believe. We have live out our faith in our daily lives. We have to “get in the wheelbarrow”.
“So that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.” 1 Corinthians 2:5
-david langerfeld
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