The Urban Dictionary: Bridge, A part of a song which links a verse or the chorus to another ... Should I take 'em to the bridge? Take 'em to the bridge? (Go 'head!) hit me now! Usually the bridge is on the music sheets…but James Brown made it popular by telling his musicians, within the song, to take him to the bridge. The band is playing the main “verse” and will only shift to the chords of the bridge when JB signals them to go to the next section of the song.

Where am I going with this? Take me to the bridge dropped into my spirit one day, and I was not listening to a James Brown song. I don’t remember where the thought came from, but I started thinking about a bridge. There is the bridge over troubled water; water under the bridge; burning bridges; London Bridge is falling down; and I am sure there are many more bridge sayings. Bridges have an important purpose. But the one bridge not listed here is the bridge between God and man, the bridge between life and death. The bridge that connects the gap between us and God. That bridge has a name, and it is Jesus Christ.

Jesus is both God and man (Colossians 2:9), and is the connecting bridge between God and humanity. In Him, what had been separated by sin is joined together. Adam and Eve’s disobedience created an unbridgeable gulf between God and man. Do you remember seeing pictures with a gap between God and man, and in the gap is sin and hell? It shows that Jesus is the only bridge to get to God. This is often described as the great divide. 1 Timothy 2:5, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.” Take note, it says the man Christ Jesus.  

So going back to the definition of a bridge, we see that Jesus is the only bridge that links us to  God, the Father.  John 14:6, Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” We don’t ask to be taken to the bridge, nor do we automatically go to the bridge.  In fact we know nothing of the bridge until we are led there through the preaching of the Gospel.  Not until the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus is preached, believed and received are we aware of the need to cross a bridge; crossing from death to life; crossing to the other side, from separation from God to where He is waiting to fellowship with us.  When God calls the sinner’s name, it signals that He is ready to take him or her to the Bridge.