All I Can Do, Part II

Imagine you and all the people on earth are on one side of a great chasm and heaven is on the other. You've all been instructed to build a bridge that will get you to the other side. Everyone goes to work and frantically starts building bridges, until God says "Stop".

Nobody has finished. Some bridges span 100 feet or more, while others are only a few feet long and not at all attractive. 

But, it turns out that it doesn't matter how far anyone got. Jesus makes up the unfinished distance for each of us.

No matter how far that distance is.

To me, the emphasis in "after all you can do" shouldn't be on the ALL, but rather on the YOU. All YOU can do is just that - it's not what your mom or your neighbor or anyone else can do, it's just all you can do.

Good news! I think that 'comparing' might not even be a real concept in heaven...although we've pretty much perfected the art here :)

CREDIT: The bridge and its symbolic representation of Christ's grace is not my original thought (not much is!). I heard this analogy at a stake YoungWomen's meeting and, although I can't remember who taught it, I want to give credit to the Hermosa Vista Stake Young Women presidency for teaching this concept in such a beautiful way that it stuck in my heart!


Gonna Need Grace