An Important Piece of String AN AMAZING FACT: Before a bridge was built across the Niagara Gorge, several lives were lost as people attempted to ferry across the turbulent, roaring rapids. You might be surprised to learn the first step in constructing a bridge over Niagara Falls was made by a 10-year-old boy named Homan Walsh. In 1848, Homan flew a kite from one side of the gorge to the other, which won him a $10 prize. Someone on the opposite side caught the kite and tied a little stronger string to the end of the kite string, and the new, thicker string was pulled back across the gorge. The process was repeated with an even stronger string, then a cord, then a thin rope, then a thicker rope, and eventually they had a cable across the expanse strong enough to support workers, tools, and materials. Eventually, the two nations were connected by a sturdy bridge over which trucks and trains could pass. And it all started with one tiny kite string! The Bible also tells of a woman who saved her whole family with a little red string. Rahab, a woman of ill repute, took a step of faith in her kindness to the Jewish spies sent to gather information about her city. As she helped them escape through a window, they promised safety to her or anyone she brought into her home when they returned to ransack the city—if she tied a red cord in her window. They respected their promise, and Rahab even became an ancestor of Jesus! KEY BIBLE TEXTS And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear. Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy fathers household, home unto thee. And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him. And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. - Joshua 2:17-21
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:08:08 +0000
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