God's Calling Us to...
CONSIDER
THE CROSS ~"The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18 ~
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You know, we glorify this cross to the point that we think it wasn't such a big deal. We talk about it in terms of it being just some little happening. When, in fact, this was the most cruel, the most inhumane way to be put to death. When we begin to think of what that was really like, that those nails were real spikes through real honest-to-goodness flesh. It was real bleeding and torture.
I don't think we know what that's about enough to grasp the concerpt today, because we really don't understand what God's love is all about yet. The fact is that He really cares for us. I wrote a song called, "I Don't Know Why You Love Me" because that's true in my own life. Songs like "He Loved Me With a Cross" and others are written and recorded because I'm still trying to understand what that was about.
How could someone love someone so much that they would go to the cross and die for them? I understand that it should have been me on the cross, my good friends, my wife and kids. But it wasn't. It was Jesus Himself, God in the flesh, and that breaks my heart. I'm still trying to understand that, and I'm certain that I'm not the only one.
I want to sing about the cross. Do you know why? Because it is at that crossroad that people must decide. It is in the light of the cross that mankind must decide which direction to go. It is at that juncture that John 3:16 begins to make any semblance of sense to us.
"For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life."---LARNELLE HARRIS
God's Calling...
FOR ME--
The cross, where Christ was crucified, tells us about man's sinfulness and about God's love that came to save us. After Christ's suffering on the cross, never again will we, the created, wonder how the Creator feels about us or the lengths He is willing to go in order to save us.
Calling Out..
TO GOD --
"Thank You, Lord, for dying on the cross for me. You did what we could not do. Your death tells us just how deeply You truly love the world."
