Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
During a brutal study at Harvard in the 1950s, Dr. Kurt Richter placed rats in a pool of water to see how long they could stay afloat. On average, they give up and sink in fifteen minutes. But right before they gave up due to exhaustion, the researchers took them out, dried them, let them rest for a few minutes – and brought them back for a second round.
Another 15 minutes?
10 minutes?
5 minutes?
No!
60 hours!
It’s not a mistake. Right! sixty hours sailing.
It was concluded that because the rats believed that they would eventually be rescued, they could keep their bodies afloat further than they had previously thought impossible.
I’ll leave you with this thought:
If faith can keep exhausted rats swimming for so long, what can faith in yourself and your abilities do for you? “As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his fate!”
This was an article written by Erich Maria Remarque.
William James Roop, M.A.B.S.
