Charles Blondin, whose real name was Jean François Gravelet, was a French acrobat who first walked a tightrope 1100 feet across Niagara Falls in 1859. He performed this feat many more times. More than once he walked across the falls while carrying his manager, Harry Colcord, on his back. After one such trip he said to a man in the crowd, “Do you believe I could do that with you?”
The man answered, “Yes, I’ve just seen you do it.”
“Well, then,” Blondin said, “Hop on and I’ll carry you across.”
But the man replied, “Not on your life.”
Saving faith goes beyond mere mental assent that affirms certain statements as true. Faith must also involve the consent of our will. We must trust in Christ.
from High Calling, published by the Francis Asbury Society, March - April issue 2022
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