The elephant driver was seated. away up, behind the great creature’s ears. He was on the way to the nearest town, just about to cross a good, sound-looking bridge.
Then the elephant stopped. He tried the weight of his long trunk on the bridge, and refused to go farther. What could he the matter? The driver became angry, and goaded it with the little spear he carried, until he forced the unwilling animal onto the bridge.
Suddenly a loud crack sounded, then another, till with a crash the rotten planks gave way, and both elephant and driver were plunged into the stream below.
You were not standing by the bridge that day, or you might have told him then that the old elephant knew hest, and the bridge was not to be trusted. But you are standing today on earth, and you would like to go to heaven some day. Isn’t that true? Then let me ask you, have you a bridge that will bear your weight, that will take you safely from this sin-stained earth to God’s spotless home of light? There is not a man upon earth that can put a finger towards making a bridge.
If you hope to gain heaven by your prayers or good deeds, you will find, when it is too late, that you have trusted a rotten plank, which will give way beneath you, landing you in hell forever. Who could make a bridge between sinful man and the holy God?
There is only One who could do this. It is the Lord Jesus Christ who, through His finished work on. Calvary, has opened the way for sinners to reach His bright home in heaven.
Yes, dear reader, there is no load limit on this “bridge” for the sinner who would come to Jesus. He Himself is the Way to God the Father. The Bible is the invitation which God Himself has put before you so that you may be quite sure that all who come to God through His Son, will be accepted. This is a costly bridge indeed. The Lord Jesus had to go down into death, even the death of the cross, to open this way for sinners like you and me. Trust now in Him and be saved for eternity.
ML 11/25/1951