April 11, 2010

The Mighty Cross
Mark 4:1-20
by Rev. Lawrence delos Trinos

I have a poster of a cross with these words: It was not the nails that held Christ to the cross but God's love for you and me. That quotation somehow points out the reason why the cross of Christ is mighty. It is the power of God's great love for us that makes the Cross mighty. But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us…(Romans 5:8 NLT)

It is important now and again to ask ourselves how deeply we know and experience the might of the cross. Am I growing in my understanding of God's great love through Christ's death on the cross?

The great demonstration of God's love is His complete forgiveness of our sin. But you know that God could not just forgive our sin because His Holiness demands that we must be punished for it. God who declared that the 'wages of sin is death' cannot simply dismiss our wickedness. So Christ came down to us, took all our sin and took all our punishment when he suffered and died on the cross. Through his death of immeasurable cost and suffering, Christ not only paid our sin to satisfy God's holiness. He also secured God's total forgiveness of our sin. Through Him, God demonstrated His great love.

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