Come, let us worship and bow down.
….Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
….for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
….the flock under his care. Psalm 95:6-7 NLT

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Today has been full and a bit hectic, so as I slipped into a pair of lounge pants and an old sweatshirt to sit and write, weariness has overtaken me.

As I read through the next passage of Scripture, a thread of thought came to me. But at the same time, a title popped into my head, a song by the same title did also.

The song is The Great Divide made popular in the mid-90s by the group Point of Grace. I love their music! A few years later, I had the pleasure of singing in a mixed trio with two talented ladies from my church. This is one of the songs we sang and, believe it or not, we sang it in the same key as the ladies from Point of Grace! Back then, I could sing quite a bit higher than I do now. (I was serving as Children’s Pastor at the time, and our well-versed Minister of Music, Virginia Cameron, noticed the kids were struggling when singing with me. She suggested that I needed to sing an octave higher – where children naturally sing – and voila! – it worked! Needless to say, it stretched my tenor voice quite a bit!)

Regardless, this is still a powerful song. One outstanding portion of the lyrics is inverted in the chorus and drives home a great message. The chorus begins with,

There’s a bridge to cross the great divide

And ends with,

There’s a cross to bridge the great divide

I read somewhere that it was an unintentional typo initially, but it sure preaches, and they left it the way it was.

Enjoy this lyric video as sung by Point of Grace!

Jan 11th, 2022, Tues, 8:11 pm