Charles Blondin was a world-renowned tightrope artist and acrobat. On June 30, 1859, before a stunned crowd of 100,000 excited onlookers, Blondin was the first person to cross Niagara Falls by tightrope. He crossed 1100 feet on a single three-inch HEMP cord, strung from 160 feet above the falls on one side to a spot 270 feet above the falls on the other. The breathless assembly watched him accomplish, step by slow step, a feat most believed impossible.

But Blondin was just getting started. In the years to come the daring entertainer crossed again and again: on stilts, in a sack, even pushing a whellbarrow! The story goes that an exuberant onlooker called out, “You could cross with a man in that wheelbarrow!” Blondin agreed and called back, “Climb in.” The spectator declined.

“What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, ‘Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” James 2.14-17

Are you in the wheelbarrow? Have you ever been in the wheelbarrow? Would you ever consider getting in the wheelbarrow? Do you think that you can prove your faith any other way? God is doing some amazing things around this planet and he calls all of each, each of us, to come and join him. Will you climb in?

“Without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Hebrews 11.6

Imagine the view from Blondin’s wheelbarrow. Now imagine the view from God’s. That’s the reward. Climb in.