Usually Arizona is associated with dry, desert regions. But recent
monsoon rains have caused flashfloods in the area creating some
emergency situations.
Twenty-five people
including three children and an infant were found stranded at what was
normally a low water crossing in Bear Canyon outside Tucson.
Authorities determined that a ladder rescue was the best option, so
Ladder 7 of the Tucson Fire Department was called out. The ladder was
lowered across the flooded creek and served as a bridge for crew members
to escort the stranded people to safety. *
Our sins leave us
stranded with no hope and in deadly peril (Romans 6:23). Our sins
separate us from God (Isaiah 59:1-2) and we are lost unless someone
comes to our rescue.
God loves us and doesn’t
want anyone to perish (2 Peter 3:9). So God sent His one and only Son
to rescue us (John 3:16). In order to save us and to give us eternal
life, Jesus had to give His life for our sins (1 Peter 2:24).
Jesus is the Bridge to
bring us to God and to all of the spiritual blessings that He wants to
give to us.
“For Christ died for
sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to
God” (1 Peter 3:18 NIV).
Jesus said, “I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
Me” (John 14:6).
To access the Bridge to God, we must place our
faith and
trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from sin in
repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be
baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). Then as
we continue to walk in the light of His Word, the blood that Jesus shed
in His death continues to cleanse us from all sin (1 John 1:7-9).
The Son of God who
descended from heaven became the Bridge to bring us to God. You can be
saved and have eternal life in heaven if you will access the Bridge
through your trusting obedience.
-- David A. Sargent
* Information gleaned
from “Arizona
firefighters rescue
25 people, including infant, during flooding in Bear Canyon” by Stephen
Sorace,
www.foxnews.com.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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