Cartoonology. There is great theology in cartoons and comics.
Last week I attended my niece’s funeral. She was buried in the church cemetery of my hometown in Big Island, Virginia. As you make your way up the steep hill to the cemetery, a beautiful, panoramic view of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the James River basin appear before you. Looking up the river, you can see the Blue Ridge Parkway Bridge. As I stood there, the beauty awed me, as it has many times in the past, but that day I took special notice of the bridge.
I remembered how as a 14 year-old boy I walked across that bridge to participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. This was an historic moment, although few people participated or even noticed. This bridge was one of the vital links completing the Parkway, which had begun in the early 1930’s. It represents its lowest point at about 670 feet and stands there today as a memorial to what man can accomplish.
I reflected that day on another bridge that enables man to complete his journey from birth to eternal life. This bridge is the cross of Jesus Christ. This is the cross on which He died so that all men can be saved. Few took notice of that bridge when it was constructed, but many have crossed it over the centuries to find salvation from sin and death. My niece had crossed that bridge years earlier. So had my father, mother, and two sisters whose remains were buried just a few feet from my niece’s grave. So had many other people in that cemetery that I knew over my lifetime. Some of them had impacted my decision to cross that bridge in 1961.
The bridge that Jesus provided still stands as a memorial to what God has accomplished for all mankind. Have you crossed that bridge yet? If not, my prayer is that you will today.
2 Corinthians 5:18 (NLT)
18 All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him. 01-27-10
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