We Need this Bridge

Sometime today you will more than likely have to go across a bridge to get to where you are going. Bridges are very important getting us from one place to another and without some bridges it would be impossible to get there. There are bridges that go over lakes, rivers, creeks and other highways. I think of some of the important bridges of our day. There is the Golden Gate part of Route 101 and California State Route 1; it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937. There is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway it is the longest in the world over water measuring 23.87 miles. It's amazing what a difference a bridge can make it literally brings people and places together. And for all people, there needs to be a bridge for them to get to the most important destination of all - heaven. Actually, Jesus has bridged the "Grand Canyon" between a holy God and us sinners by His death for our sins.

2Co 5:18
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled (Brought into friendship from a state of disagreement) us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; (restoring relationships)

2Co 5:19 To wit, (to know) that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them (He didn't hold people's faults against them); and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (This message of restored relationships to tell others)

2Co 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors (representatives) for Christ, as though God did beseech (beg) you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

2Co 5:21 For he hath made him (Christ)
to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Let's look at it another way:

2Co 5:18
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled
(Wayne Sosebee) to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to
(Wayne Sosebee)
the ministry of reconciliation;

2Co 5:19 To wit,
that God was in Christ, reconciling
(Wayne Sosebee) unto himself, not imputing his trespasses unto him; and hath committed unto
(Wayne Sosebee) the word of reconciliation.

2Co 5:20 Now
(Wayne Sosebee) is ambassadors
for Christ, as though God did beseech
you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

2Co 5:21
For he hath made him
(Christ)
to be sin for
(Wayne Sosebee), who knew no sin; that
(Wayne Sosebee) might be made the righteousness of God in him.
(Christ)

You can put your name in there or anybody else, because it's all about Christ and I thank Him for giving the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ sled blood on Calvary's cross. Don't you? For He is the bridge!