| If you have been anywhere near a TV set or the Internet this week, I am sure you have seen the tragedy of the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis. The death toll this morning as I am writing is at 5 and climbing with numerous injuries to others who were spared. My thoughts and prayers go out those people and their families.How does this kind of thing happen? Who is responsible?
It was reported that for years they have known about problems with this bridge. They can attribute some of the problem from the beginning due to some faulty welding, and later due to cracks and other problems noticed in the nineties. Yet some team of “experts” came in and deemed the bridge “Structurally Deficient” and then continued to use the bridge. I have been across this very bridge when I was a truck driver during the early 90’s. Does it not outrage us that we knew something was wrong and just let it go. The consequences of these actions are being painfully felt by those affected by this collapse. BOTTOM LINE: THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. Just like this horrible bridge incident could have been avoided, there is something else that comes to my mind that we can avoid that is even worse. One day it will be our time to pass from this life to the next. We all will stand judgement before a Holy and Just God. Wouldn’t it be shame to suffer eternal consequences because of something we had prior knowledge of. Just like that bridge we are all faulty due to sin. We can see the “Cracks” in our lives if we take an honest look at ourselves and just like that bridge, if we let those cracks go unattended tragedy will befall us. Jesus Christ made a way for us to fix our “cracks” (sin) by dying on the Cross. All we need to do is realize that we have sin on our life, accept Christ as our Savior for those sins, put our faith and trust in Him and follow Him. OUR CRACKS ARE FIXED!! TRAGEDY HAS BEEN AVOIDED! WE CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE! Don’t put off fixing what is broke today because tommorow may never come. If you would have told the people before they crossed that bridge that they would never see the other side, they would probably have laughed in your face. The engineers who inspected that bridge gambled that it would be okay even though it had “structural deficiencies” and they lost at a great cost. Are you willing to gamble with your eternity? in Christ’s unfailing Love, Pastor Ken |
August 3, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Ken,
I absolutely promise you that I mean no disrespect to you. However, I recently completed a post on my blog titled “Live in the Now” that relates to this idea of religions being seemingly solely focused on what happens to us when we die. I understand that in Christianity and other religions that the idea of heaven and hell play a significant role. However, I also think that this focus on the next life severely impairs the true dedication of adherents to religion. Instead of turning the tragedy in Minneapolis into a discussion of “where will you be going,” I would rather see relgious and non-religious alike instead focus on what, if anything, they can do to help in this life.
Regards.
August 3, 2007 at 3:44 pm
MJackson75,
I understand your line of thought. and I do want to point out that the focus of my post was “what we can do now” to help us in our lives. I firmly believe that Jesus and putting our trust in Him should be first stop on the way to helping ourselves. Our goal in following Christ should not be ‘Fire Insurance” but it should be because we love Him and want to serve Him. Ultimately, we will face death and the reference I was making is that it is up to us to decide where we will spend eternity. I can imagine that the bridge engineers regret not fixing the problems when they had the chance. Thanks for your comment and civility.
Blessings
Pastor Ken