Tightrope Tips

Nik Wallenda crossed Niagara Falls last year on a tightrope, successfully passing over the waters. Our text gives us some help for when we must pass through the waters.

To travel from the United States to Canada, most people take a road. Some cross a bridge. Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope.

Over Niagara Falls.

Last June, this 33-year-old daredevil walked a cable dripping with spray from the falls as 100,000 people watched his stunt from the ground. The crossing was broadcast by ABC on live television, so millions more were able to listen to the prayers he said into a microphone as he made his way across.

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you," says God through the prophet Isaiah, "and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you" (43:2).

In fact, Wallenda didn't pass through the thundering waters of Niagara Falls, since he surely would have been knocked from his high wire and overwhelmed by the force of the falls. Instead, he passed over and above the waters, praying all the way.

Emotionally, psychologically and spiritually, however, he was in a very real sense "passing through the waters." His passage was a tightrope terror.

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