THE PRISTINE CROSS!

Sunday, March 31, 2019

THE PRISTINE CROSS!

Isa 53:5

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

           Modern Christianity is forgetful of the cross. We are painfully aware of the mental torments of a self-devised broken culture. We wear the woolen coat of impaired relationships and we tremble within a highly competitive workplace. We grapple with a broken education system and we mourn an egregious government. But we have cleansed the Cross and placed it on a pretty chain for our necks to display.

           The Cross makes hell reasonable and heaven an unimaginable gift. The cross was indescribably cruel and especially so for One so pure as Jesus. It was not clean but dirty. It was not artistically beautiful but horribly ugly.

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

See from His head, His hands, His feet,

Sorrow and love flow mingled down!

Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,

Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

To Christ, Who won for sinners grace

By bitter grief and anguish sore,

Be praise from all the ransomed race

Forever and forevermore.

Dear Lamb of God, let me not shrink from the horror of the Cross. Let me, instead, understand that it was for me you died. AMEN