How safe is your Bridge?

I had a lovely walk last Thursday from Eastwood after I had been to my keep fit class. I walked to Langley Mill and round the little nature reserve they have. The last time I went the bridge didn’t look so old and rickety, it has definitely fell into disrepair. However, I decided after watching a lady and her dog walk safely across to brave it, I'm glad I did because I saw quite a few dragonflies (one of my favourite insects) I didn't manage to get any photographs though they are just too quick for me.

The thing I noticed about the bridge which I found quite unnerving was that with every step it bounced, I know I wouldn’t have fallen far had it have given way but I really didn’t fancy a dunk in the water, although I would have been closer to the fish and perhaps would have got quite a good shot.

But thinking about how unstable this bridge was that took me from one side of the brook to the other I thought about life and what kind of bridge people rely on to take them over from this life to the next. There is only one sure safe way that you can one hundred percent trust and that is Jesus, who said of Himself, John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” You will hear people say that all roads lead to God, they do in one way because every other way apart from Jesus will lead you to the judgment seat of God were you will be answerable to God for the sins you have committed in your life and the fact that you rejected Jesus as the true way who took the punishment for our sins. All who repent and believe in Him will have eternal life. Those who don’t will be found guilty and answerable for their sins a debt they cannot pay.

Someone who goes to court before a judge and is found guilty has to pay the penalty that the judge applies unless someone steps up and pays the penalty in which case they would go free. When you stand before God will you hear the Lord Jesus say “this one trusted in me he can go free,” or will you be judged, found guilty, condemned, and then punished-eternal torment.

Don’t trust in anything other that the true way, Jesus, repent of your sin and believe in Him. Prayerfully study the Holy Bible that you may grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, commune with the Father every day, trusting only in Him and not of yourself or any man. If you have to work for your salvation you are trusting in an unstable bridge which is going to let you down, you will find you will arrive at a destination that you weren’t expecting.

Psalm118:8

It is better to trust in the Lord

Than to put confidence in man.