Do you know what I find interesting about bridges? I always trust them. It doesn't matter if I am driving over a bridge, walking across one, using a sky walk bridge that connects a parking deck to a doctor's office, etc. I just believe with every single step that the bridge is going to support me. I never pray for my safety before I walk across one. I never inspect the craftsmanship of it. I don't ask to see any statistics about it. I just drive or walk on over it as if it is nothing.
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That bridge is suspended above the ground! Have you EVER realized that?!?! It is way on up in the air and there is nothingness under me until I reach the other side. It is just an absolute miracle every single time I cross over one of those things. Phew...just to sit and think about all the troubles I could have faced by crossing all the bridges I've crossed in my day!
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It's funny the things we put our trust and faith in sometimes. Something as simple as a bridge never crosses our mind as a danger. We will drive or walk across something that is suspended hundreds and even thousands of feet sometimes in the air and never think twice about it but there are days that we question God. We question his existence, his motives, his intentions, his will. It amazes me how God created us. He bread into our every fiber to just have faith with such the smallest of things but he also made sure to create us in such a way that we have to consciously make an effort to believe in him!
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He could have designed us all to just automatically believe in God and believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. He could have designed us to never worry because we always knew that he would be there to protect us, provide for us, watch over us. But he didn't. He wanted us to seek him and to love him because WE chose to not because he made us!
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"God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure." Ephesians 1:5 (NLT). So many times I have heard adoptive parents say that some children grow in the mommy's belly but there are some children that just grow in your heart! Oh how true that is with God! God loves us no matter what we do, what we say, where we go...his love for us is unconditional. But, often times the love we have for him has many, many strings attached. God's plan is for us to adopt him as our Father so that he grows in our hearts! Jesus is the bridge that connects us to our Father. Do you trust that this bridge will hold you? Do you question the craftsmanship? Or, do you just walk step after step with nothing but faith beneath your feet?
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