Look At The Cross

Friend, have you contemplated the Cross of Christianity?

Have you discovered the great meaning behind this symbol?

Do you realize without the Cross man would not believe in Eternal Life in The Kingdom of God?

It is our sin which created the need for The Cross.

It is a symbol of God, The Trinity of Father, Son and Spirit's love for us; and Their desire to have our soul saved and cleansed and to abide in The Kingdom of God, eternally; being a citizen of Heaven, having Heavenly duties in The Kingdom of God.

This symbol is going to be attacked, and it's many forms upon the earth are going to be angrily removed; trampled upon and burned at some time in the future by the ones who will not repent, who wish to live sinful.

Evil is going to have it's day and many will follow thinking it best to get rid of the Cross, which condemns their sin.

But it is our sin which condemns us. We are not our own. 

We have Free Will given as a Gift to us when we enter this world, but our soul is what causes us to live in our body and that soul is a part of God, created by Him to fill our earth body.

But friend, The Cross holds the Power of our Salvation.

It was upon the wood Cross of the Romans that Jesus was crucified for our sins to be forgiven. He was nailed to it an innocent man. 

Friend when a person decides to gaze upon The Cross with a heart yearning to know Truth, that one will come to a meeting place with The One who died on that Cross. 

As we consider the "why" of the Cross our Lord brings Knowledge to our heart. 

We see He suffered. 

We see the crown of thorns digging deep into His forehead and scalp. We see His arms stretched out the bones strung out so that muscles and tendons scream in pain, the nails pounded into his wrists/hands/feet the terrible wounds leaking His Precious Healing Blood onto the earth for us, the open chest wound from the spear to make sure He was deceased before sundown.

We also see the wounds from the beating and beard pulling and whip.

The angry and mean jeering from His accusers rings in our ears even today!

We wonder why The Father allowed Him to suffer.

And Jesus shows us in our spirit, that His suffering was for us. A price had to be paid to satisfy The Law; and He paid it once, for all who would recognise it and be thankful.

Then as we gaze longer at The Cross, we see that we are so guilty! Our own sin put Him there, not some others, but our own sin.

Then we wonder why He did that for humankind.

Eventually we get the answer.

Because He loves our souls that He created.

We were perfect and then; He gave us Free Will trusting we would not turn our back to Him.

But, we did turn our back to Him; and The Cross became necessary to save as many as as would find Him and love Him.

That's the Christians, born again of the Holy Spirit.