Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Habakkuk 3:19
“The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights..”
“We will just cross that bridge when we get to it.” How many times have we said those words? Often they speak about a negative possibility or difficult challenge somewhere ahead on the road of life. God gives us grace to cross every bridge, but not until we come to it.
We were water rafting and passed under some rusty cables that were very high. They were stretched from a cliff across the river to the other side. I could tell that they were the ghostly remains of an old swinging bridge from another time in history.
Once an old home place stood on one side, and the shell of a little church was still standing on the other. We were told that the bridge was built for the family to attend church. I thought of Lindberg’s painting of the Guardian Angel watching over the children on a bridge.
We all need bridges to help us from here to home. The word priest can mean a bridge builder who makes it possible for us to get across troubled waters and the vast spans that are between sorrows and joys, worries and fears, and life and death, here and our home in Heaven.
The song says, “Got any rivers you think are uncrossable?
Got any mountains, you cannot tunnel through?
God specializes in things thought impossible
And He can do what no other power can do.”
We dare not build our own bridges because they will never bear the weight of our cares or our guilt and sin. We rejoice that we have a Great High Priest in Jesus who is the bridge builder for all who are willing to cross by faith.
One by one we come to that great chasm we call death. Christians can face it with absolute faith that the cables are securely fastened to the old rugged cross on this side and anchored in Christ the Solid Rock on the other side; and should we tremble at the crossing, just remember: “The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.” Habakkuk 3:19
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
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