Slinking Around

Send us Fan MailNaval engineer Richard James was stationed at a Pennsylvania shipyard in the 1940s and faced the same struggle as many other sea-faring officers … how to stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas.James developed springs that would hold the instruments in place, but discovered another use for them when he knocked one of the springs from the shelf and watched as it moved from the shelf to a stack of books, to a tabletop and then to the floor.After making some modifications, James was able to sell 100 million  springs over the next two years under the spring’s new name … Slinky.  In 2 Corinthians, we reminded that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (5:17)One of the attractions of the Slinky is its simplicity. Oftentimes, we get bogged down as Christians because we make things more complicated than they need to be.The truth of the matter is that God loves us, and that He, through Jesus, allows us to be forgiven and free from the chains of sin. What a simple, and wonderful, message to share with others!Support the show