Victory
Illustration★★★★I think of the building of a giant bridge across a portion of New York’s harbor. Engineers were searching for a base upon which to rest one of the mighty buttresses. But deep in the mud and practically buried, they discovered an old barge, full of bricks and stones that had long ago sunk to that spot. It had to be moved. Yet in spite of every device it remained firmly held to its muddy bed.
At last one of the engineers conceived an idea. He gathered other barges about and secured them by long chains to the sunken wreck while the tide as low. Then all waited. The tide was coming in. Higher and higher rose the water, and with it the floating barges. Then the creaking and straining on the chains, that old boat was lifted from its viselike grip—raised by the lift of the Atlantic Ocean!
George Vandeman, Planet in Rebellion, 173.
The point
Engineers discovering a sunken barge couldn't move it until they attached chains to floating barges; the rising tide lifted all together—a picture of God's power lifting us from stuck places.