Hello to all! I am posting again before the old year is over and the new begins.
I would just like to share a thought with you all that I had about the CROSS and how big it is. There have been some issues I have been struggling with the last few days and even the last few weeks, I have not really be wrestling with God but just seeking Him and asking the Lord for wisdom, on how to give advise... And one thing that kept coming back to my mind was the Cross, and God's grace and how Christ took all the punishment for our sins on himself when He went to the cross... And I was just reminded of how much grace God really does give to us, and how all I really have to do is look to the cross and remember what Jesus did for me. Over the past few days of this holiday season I was reading this book, though they were all fictional character's, the situations were very real life circumstances and things that we all struggle with today, and one of the things this author was dealing with was the cross and how when we have doubts and struggles and think we are not good enough and don't see ourselves as God sees us, all we have to do is look to the cross and know that it is big enough to take our doubts and our fears and our struggles. In the book I was reading, they were talking about sin and how some people can overlook the severity of sin, here are they words that this character said in talking to this woman, "I'm not dismissing the severity of your sin, but I understand the greatness of the cross. Your sin has been covered. It's gone. You're not that person anymore". After reading that my heart was so touched. How often do we, as Christians, look at another Christian and keep dwelling on their past when we know by their fruits that they have in all sincerity humbled themselves before the Lord and are striving to walk according to the Lord and the way that He would have them to go, who are we to judge if their sin has been paid for or not, Scripture tells us that our sins are washed white as snow, and that Christ came to pay for that sin on the cross, and when you stop and reflect upon the greatness of the cross.... well, it just about renders me speechless, because who has the words to completely explain the greatness of the Cross but Christ Himself.
Well anyway.... I will leave you all with those thoughts and I would love to hear what you have to say about the greatness of the Cross.
May this holiday weekend be filled with many blessings for you and your family, and May you see Christ in all that you do, and may His love shine through each and everyone!
Comments (4)
Great post!
C. J. Mahaney has a great book called "Living the Cross Centered Life". You might want to read that if you haven't yet.
Happy New Year!
Thanks,
I will have to check it out!
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"....The only way to the Father
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