Thursday, August 02, 2007

Mohler on the Bridge and Jonathan Edwards

Albert Mohler writes today about the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, using the words of Jonathan Edwards to remind us of our mortality. Read this paragraph, and you'll see exactly where's he's going:

The people who drove onto that bridge had no advance warning of its collapse. They made no conscious decision to embrace danger or to put their lives on the line. Experience and reason have trained us all to trust what looks solid and stable -- and that bridge looked solid and stable up until it fell.

Read the whole thing.