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Ten Inches Deep
A boy was sitting on a park bench
with one
hand resting on an open Bible. He was
loudly
exclaiming his praise to God.
"Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! God is great!"
he yelled without worrying
whether anyone
heard him or not. Shortly after,
along
came a man who had recently completed
some studies at a
local university.
Feeling himself very enlightened in
the ways
of truth and very eager to show this
enlightenment,
he asked the boy about the source of his
joy.
"Hey," asked the boy in return with
a
bright laugh, "don't you have any
idea what God is able
to do? I just read
that God opened up the waves of the
Red Sea and led the whole nation of
Israel right through
the middle."
The enlightened man laughed
lightly, sat down
next to the boy and began to try to
open
his eyes to the 'realities' of the
miracles of the
Bible. "That can all be
very easily explained. Modern
scholarship
has shown that the Red Sea in that area
was
only 10 inches deep at the time.
It was no problem for
the Israelites to wade across."
The boy was
stumped. His eyes wandered
from the man back to the
Bible laying
open in his lap. The man, content
that he
had enlightened a poor, naive
young person to the finer
points of
scientific insight, turned to go.
Scarcely had
he taken two steps when
the boy began to rejoice and
praise louder
than before. The man turned to ask the
reason for this resumed jubilation.
"Wow!"
exclaimed the boy happily,
"God is greater than I
thought! Not only
did He lead the whole nation of Israel
through
the Red Sea, He topped it off by drowning the
whole Egyptian army in 10 inches of water!"
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