“When bridges seem to give way, we fall into Christ’s safe arms, true bridge, and not into hopelessness. It is safe to trust! We can be too weak to go on because His strength is made perfect in utter brokenness and nail-pierced hands help up. It is safe to trust! We can give thanks in everything because there’s a good God leading, working all things into good. It is safe to trust! The million bridges behind us may seem flattened to the earthly eye, but all bridges ultimately hold, fastened by nails. It is safe to trust” (Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are).

It’s only when we look back and see a million ways God has provided and protected us that we can remember that it is still safe to trust. When we skim through the pages of Scripture, we can read name after name, story after story that shows God’s unfailing love and unflagging care for His people. It is still safe to trust.

Ultimately, when we look up at the cross and see Jesus suspended between heaven and earth, holding nothing back but sacrificing it all, we can confidently state that it is safe to trust because we know that whatever stood in the way between us and God has been removed by the blood of the Lamb who was slain but is alive forevermore.