«THE ONE WHO BREAKS OPEN THE WAY»
«The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord at their head» (Micah 2:13, NIV).
XERXES is said to have opened a road on the sea. Herodotus, the historian, recounts how after two arduous attempts to carry out his second invasion of Greece, in 480 BC, Xerxes finally managed to build two floating bridges on the Hellespont, the strait located between Asia and Europe. To build the bridges, Xerxes tied 674 warships (used as pontoons) together with ropes. However, despite his great engineering feat, and having an army of over three hundred thousand men, Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks and his bridges were destroyed by a powerful storm.
Despite the fact that they lost the battle, it’s still impressive how in those days the Persians built two bridges connecting two continents. The Holy Scriptures tell us of such an amazing engineering feat, of such a big stairway, that it was «resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven» (Genesis 28:12, NIV). That feat doesn’t connect two continents; rather, it secures the relationship between heaven and earth. In John 1:51, Jesus identified Himself as the staircase Jacob saw in Genesis 28, because He is the Bridge God has stretched out to connect humankind with the kingdom of heaven, thus bridging the chasm produced by sin.
Likewise, in John 14:6, Jesus declared, «I am the way … No one comes to the Father except through Me.» If we long to go to heaven, we must understand and accept that Christ is the only way, the Bridge that is built toward us and can take us there. Our Lord is the only path that will lead us out of this corrupt world and into our heavenly home.
The prophet Micah recorded this wonderful promise: «The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord at their head» (Micah 2:13, NIV). We will not be stranded on the way; no storm will destroy the bridge; God goes before us, opening the roads that lead to heaven for us to walk on them,
There’s no army that can destroy those of us who walk on the path God has opened wide for us.
www.meditacionesdiarias.com
https://twitter.com/meditacionesdi1
http://www.instagram.com/meditacionesdiarias7
Taken from: Devotional Readings for Adults 2023
“I AM WITH YOU”
From: J. VLADIMIR POLANCO
Collaborators: Lorina Maya & Angelica Cuate