We’re like the Golden Gate Bridge.
How, some might ask. How can any of humanity, much less the Christian, compare to that magnificent edifice that spans the waters of the Golden Gate Channel and connects San Francisco to the Marin Headlands?
The answer’s obvious, once we see the connection. We’re an impossible (and impossibly beautiful) construction that spans the turbulent waters of life, and we do so held aloft by the wings and prayers of construction workers who’ve built and maintained us over the course of our life.
We’re suspended above life’s trials by the threads of faith that weave through our families, our church relationships, and our prayers for one another.
Take the cables that hold up the Golden Gate Bridge. They look fairy-thin from the roadway. Yet, go back to where they begin, and we find each cable isn’t just one thin thread. Each main cable holds nearly 30,000 individual wires. Each of these wires is too weak to hold up the bridge, but bundled together, the cable becomes impossible to break.
Those wires are like our faith. Impossibly strong, ever-enduring faith isn’t formed fully functional in one bright flash of Christian conversion. We don’t come to Christ, and bam! Faith hits us like a ton of bricks, and we have it. Rather, we attend church, and in the morning service, we hear the testimony of a faithful Christian; and it moves our heart. That’s one wire added to our cable. We read our Bible, a passage stands out to us, and we find encouragement in the words. We’ve bundled one more wire. We find our name on our grandmother’s prayer list on her bedside table, and our faith is made one wire stronger.
That’s faith, an accumulation of daily strands added to our main cable, until it can hold us aloft no matter how turbulent the seas are below.
1 Corinthians 3:16 tells us:
“Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?”
Cable-stayed faith. There’s no other kind.
When we learn to trust God in the little things, our faith grows to become a mighty trunk line that is impossible to break.
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