The Bridge

      How many times  have we heard the phrase coined "Be Careful of  The Bridges You Burn"? We saunter through our normal lives living at the Grace of God; taking our own personal risks.  Many times the roads we chose don't lead to where we expect them to.  Many times the roads we chose are filled with obstacles and despair.  For example:  In human relations between man and woman, sometimes we meet and love a person of whom we seemed to have known an eternity.  The hair that grows on the back of his hands is equal to the ones growing under my chin.  We think alike though we will never admit it.  Often times we can finish off each others sentences.  Yet, we have grown apart.  The good times and experiences that bonded us together have become memories afar in the distance. Somehow our minds constantly ponder upon the very things that keep us apart. Those feelings and experiences become spidery veins that trail along the foundation of the bridge and compromise its safety for usage.

     "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ." 1 Timothy 2:5.  So who is the mediator between man and woman, sister and brother, friend and foe?  The scriptures say: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  NO one comes to the Father except through me.”  John 14:6.    In the best of times the veins of deception, betrayal and defeat grow long and large and over a period of time grow an even thick.  They infiltrate the bridge and keep us farther apart from each other.
  
The Scriptures Say: 
     A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you that ye also love one another, By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if ye have love one to another ~John 13v34035~

The Scriptures Say:
      "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8   So should we release our fears, our anger and self doubt for there is a greater love than ours.  What then about the bridge, the bridge we must not burn?

 Crossing the Bridge or Staying Put

The Scriptures Say  

        "Here I am"! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:20.  A query to for help and a answer that befits us all.

"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12 .  We are all still growing even in our adult life and it is important that we keep things in perspective.    Still the question remains, how will you cross the bridge if at all?  For assuredly you must admit you are not perfect nor is anyone else.  You must realize you need people in your life and may need to cross the bridge once fearlessly traveled once again to receive the answers you need.  This venture may change your life or you may have to change your life to venture forth.  In either case the decision is up to you to repeat a possible error or make a new one.  We must fervently consider the spider veins that have taken over the bridge.  The tangled weeds that are causing cracks in the moral fiber of our soul.  This vein is not only apart of the bridge and its surface, it alters the security and encompasses us as individuals.

 

         Is it a matter of being careful not to burn the bridge we so happily crossed in our life endeavors to succeed? Should we just be merry and experience our lives through and at the expense of others? 
I say to you that the answer is as simple as it is complex...However, the choice is ours to make but the decision as to how and what we pay for our actions comes from the Lord above.