Seeing Leads to Believing

  Elisha Otis built a better elevator, but no one was knocking at his door.

  Up until his invention, there were elevators but they weren’t all that safe. Otis changed that with his elevator break. Now if something malfunction, an elevator could be stopped before the riders fell to their deaths. Still, sales were not that great, he only sold three in the previous year.

 So Elisha did something crazy. At the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York, he raised an elevator up on a high suspended platform with him inside, held only by a rope. Then he ordered the rope to be cut. The crowd gasped and the elevator fell…..a few inches.

 The elevator didn’t go down but sales went thru the roof. His invention help to make the modern-day skyscraper a feasible reality.

  All it took was a demonstration.

  People often have to be shown something is true in order to believe it. That is why it is so vitally important for a Christian’s life to match his faith. Folks hear what we say about the gospel but they will believe the gospel we live.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him,…

Titus 1:16