Blondin's greatest fame came in June of 1859 when he attempted to become the first person to cross a tightrope stretched over a quarter of a mile across the mighty Niagara Falls.
A crowd gathered to watch him attempt this deadly walk.
The silent tension turned to cheers as they watched him walk out, turn and come back.
He asked the crowd, “How many believe that I can walk to the other side and back while pushing a wheelbarrow?”
They shouted, “We believe, we believe!”
The tightropewalker did in fact walk out and back with a wheelbarrow. Upon his return, he asked, “Do you believe I could wheelbarrow a person across the tightrope.”
Again the crowd responded with enthusiastic affirmation.
“Very well, then,” he asked, “Who would like to get in?” The crowd fell silent. No one offered to get in the wheelbarrow. Nobody put their belief in Blondin to the test.
The Blondin story goes that no one did!
Trusting Christ is not simply assenting to the facts of the gospel message. There is a decision that implies actually getting into the wheelbarrow.
Are you in the crowd or in the wheelbarrow? ?
Don't worry, Jesus has carried many across to Heaven's gates. He can be trusted!!
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