Bridge the Gap

“We can’t go it alone.  We can’t do it ourselves.  We need help from others to bridge the gaps.”

Loren Thornburg

A gap is a space between two things.  Sometimes gaps provide to be helpful openings into a place we want to be or go.  Yet, a gap can also be the space that keeps us from going where we want to go.  In that case we need someone or something to bridge the gap.  We can recognize the importance of bridges that we drive or walk on that help us cross the gaps in the road made by rivers or ravines.  There are also many other places in our lives that help us cross over into a place we never could have gone without help.   Most of all I have seen how people have bridged the gaps in my life.  Teachers and coaches who made a way for learning and growth.  Counselors who brought me from pain into healing.  Friends who helped me see things in my life that I never would have seen on my own.  I am so thankful for all the people who have taken me places I never could have gone alone.  I want to a “gap-bridger”  too!!

“If one man’s sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There’s no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift...can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?

Romans 5:15-17 Message

The truth is there was a gap.  Through Adam came sin and we were separated from God with no way back to Him.  Jesus came to bridge the gap by dying for us and what a bridge He is!!  There is no comparison between the gap we once faced and the life we can now have.  He became a life giving gift that set everything right for those willing to believe.  Jesus is there waiting for us, inviting us to let Him bridge the gap from where we are to where He calls us to be.  Then He uses us to bridge the gap for others to know Him and to fall more in love with Him.  Lets stand in the gap with Him that many more could “grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift.”