"The Bridge Is Out"

A preacher was driving home one night with his wife and two daughters in their car. It was raining and dark. And because of the intensity of the rain he could hardly see past his headlights. On the way, he had to drive a huge bridge. There were signs posted all along the bridge saying, “DO NOT PICK HITCH-HIKERS.”

There was an institute for the criminally insane near the base of the bridge and sometimes people would escape from it with the attempt to hitch a ride. On this particular night, as the preacher turned his car onto the bridge, driving slow was the only reasonable option since he could hardly see the road.

Somewhere near the top of the bridge a man suddenly appeared in the headlights. He was drenched in the rain, and standing in the middle of the road with his shirt off, frantically waving it over his head and screaming.

The preacher’s wife began to say, “Oh! Please don’t stop. Try to drive around him!” But the man was unavoidable and there was nowhere for the car to miss him. So the preacher had to stop the car. When he did, the man slapped his hand on the hood of the car and screamed at the top of his voice.

Looking over to his wife the preacher told her to lock the door behind him and not unlock till he returns. His family was now crying with the plight of him not getting out of the car. But he did. Like the speed of light he also, got drenched by the rain. And like a man who has woken up from his slumber, the preacher was able to make out the words of the screaming man, “THE BRIDGE IS OUT! THE BRIDGE IS OUT! A BUS LOAD OF KIDS JUST WENT DOWN OVER IT”

As these words registered in the preacher’s mind, he looked back at his family in the car. Immediately he wrapped his arms around the man and wept in gratitude. He stood there with the man for the next half hour in the middle of the road, and waving his jacket above his head screaming, “THE BRIDGE IS OUT! THE BRIDGE IS OUT!”

For a lost and dying world, “THE BRIDGE IS OUT!” For a people heading to a Christless Eternity, “THE BRIDGE IS OUT!”

Where are the men and women who will stand in the middle of the road to forbid people from perishing?

Hell has opened its mouth wide and many are speeding into it like a jolly ride.

Where are those who will stand in the gap, on the streets, the highways and the byways to preach the Gospel which will enlighten the eyes of many and forbid them going to such a horrible place? Spread the Gospel.

Lovely thoughts for lovely people just like you. Jesus is coming back again soon.

The question is, “ARE YOU READY FOR JUDGEMENT DAY?”

"The Bridge Is Out"