Philippians 2:5-11

Love can build a bridge
Between your heart and mine
Love can build a bridge
Don’t you think it’s time?
Don’t you think it’s time?

Love can, indeed, build bridges across the chasms we humans have created—racism, sectarianism, classism, individualism, indifference, and many other yawning chasms. However, there is one chasm that makes the Grand Canyon look like a scratch on planet earth by comparison—the chasm between man and God, gouged out by sin. No human love can bridge this chasm.

But Christ came to earth to build a bridge so we can go to heaven, and he did it with just two pieces of wood.

Not only does the cross bridge the gap between heaven and hell it, is really through this bridge that the chasms between humans can be effectively and permanently bridged. Paul writes:

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:5-11, NIV).