• We are here…………over here is a river……………………….over here is Jesus.
• We……in this space…over the river…try to build a bridge…..to reach Jesus.
• We….use toy building blocks….to make the bridge over the river…to Jesus.
• We…can’t help that the rivers current takes away the toy blocks…to Jesus.
• We…….give up………..and then start………and give up………..to reach Jesus.

Sorry for my poor illustrating skills, but I think you get the point. Now, what do I want to say with this? I’m saying that all your work to reach Jesus is in vain. Totally in vain. You know why? Because Jesus is waiting for you to give him the hammer and nails so that he can build the bridge. Actually, he already built in a couple thousand years ago when he sent his Holy Spirit, who is the bridge. But noooo…, we think we have to build that bridge… Oh what demented thinking…. Even a young child knows that it’s parents will carry it where it can’t go by itself.Sometimes we put such a ridiculous amount of effort into building that bridge that it’s sad. You put a block in the water, the current washes it away. You put another one,maybe even getting three blocks stacked. It gets washed away again.

Now, what does Jesus want. Very simply, I’ll show you with another silly drawing thing.

• We give everything to Jesus…he build(t) the bridge…….and we reach Jesus.

Now why is it so hard for us to accept that, huh? Sheer stupidity which causes us to want to do everything ourselves.Now think about that for a while.