OUT ON THE BRIDGE
Not too long ago, the paper carried a story with which some of us can identify. A California Highway Patrol Officer received a call – it seems a woman was about to jump off a bridge. Immediately, the officer was confronted with a dilemma. You see, the officer had an extreme fear of heights, and the jumper was perched on the railing of a bridge 443 feet above the floor of a deep gorge. So, you can appreciate her situation. The officer forced herself, however, to walk calmly toward the woman and sit down beside her. There, high above that gorge, they talked for two hours while the officer struggled with her own panic. Finally, the jumper agreed to come away from the railing and get help. That officer put herself in the very same place and the very same danger as the woman who was fixing to jump. And that’s exactly what God did through Christ. God put himself…
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