The tragic collapse of the Baltimore Key Bridge and the empty tomb

It began with an virtually unthinkable radio transmission to an emergency line.

“The whole Key Bridge fell into the harbor.

Then the video — like one thing out of a sci-fi film. One minute the closely traveled Outer Harbor Bridge stood majestically there. The subsequent minute it was gone, in items within the river. After which the deep unhappiness of figuring out the employees on the bridge disappeared with him.

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After I woke as much as that heartbreaking scene on the information, I had two instant reactions.

One ought to have gone to God for all of the individuals who had been harm, misplaced, lacking, saddened and helped, as a result of He’s, because the Bible says, “the God of all consolation and the Father of all compassion” (2 Corinthians 1:3).

My second thought was, “The 'all the time there' issues in our lives are like that bridge—they are often there one minute after which out of the blue they're gone.” That collapsing bridge, I believed, is an image of what occurs in so many mourners hearts.

Day by day, throughout us, folks watch a part of their life's infrastructure crumble earlier than their eyes. A wedding that was purported to convey a lot happiness, not a lot ache. A future that’s out of the blue threatened by well being issues can change every little thing. Plans that simply fell aside, a relationship on the rocks, a baby in bother, a ghost from the previous returning.

The Bible brazenly states how precarious our safety actually is: “What they belief in is fragile; what they depend on is a spider net. They lean on the web, however it offers means” (Job 8:14,15).

Fireplace. Twister. Drunk driver crossing the road. A coronary heart assault. It might probably all come crashing down immediately.

Just like the day I out of the blue misplaced the love of my life. The day earlier than was stuffed with pleasure on the commencement of our first grandchild. My Karen was so alive. The subsequent afternoon she was gone. My mirror, my cheerleader, my clever counselor, my greatest pal—rather a lot got here crashing down that day. One factor no.

In one in every of Jesus' many parables, he tells of two homes: one constructed on sand and the opposite on rock. Each appear fantastic till a violent storm arrives. After they come throughout a home “with no basis” and “floods rush as much as that home, it collapses right into a heap of ruins.” However when the floodwaters hit a home with its “basis on stable rock…it stands agency as a result of it’s properly constructed” (Luke 6:48, 49).

Storms, crashes, collapses are a reminder that we should always by no means have constructed every little thing on the shifting sands of life. We’d like a “stable rock”.

And God reveals the place our stressed and fearful hearts can discover it. Within the phrases of Scripture: “He hath planted eternity within the coronary heart of man” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

We’re made for one thing that’s indestructible. This takes endlessly.

That’s the reason so many looking out hearts flip to Jesus. As a result of he put a reworking phrase earlier than the phrase “life”. The phrase “everlasting”. The Bible tells us, “that God has given us everlasting life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life!” (I John 5:11,12).

There is just one Man who may give us unshakable, unlosable life—one Man who has confirmed that He has it. Of the estimated 100 billion individuals who have lived on this planet, just one has ever left His grave below His personal energy. Jesus. The one who liked me a lot on Good Friday that he poured out his life on the cross to pay for the sin that minimize me off from God.

I misplaced the love of my life on a darkish day in Could. However not the One who loves me essentially the most. And who guarantees: “I’ll by no means depart you. I’ll by no means depart you” (Hebrews 13:5).

Infinite life. An unfailing love. Lastly, the everlasting gap in my coronary heart was stuffed by the One for whom it was made.

That’s the glory of Easter. As a result of when the Savior who got here out of his grave enters your life, one thing transformative occurs.

You might be protected. Eternally.