Six Reasons I Love the Cross of Christ

This is from a meme I did last year. I’ve edited it, renamed it, and I’m reposting it.

1. The cross of Christ is the solution to everything that’s not right with the universe, including what’s not right with me. No matter what the human need, it is ultimately met at the cross. All real hope is grounded there.


2. Many of God’s attributes are seen most fully in the cross. The cross is, for instance, the pinnacle of the expression of God’s grace. It was also a public display of God’s mercy, love, holiness, righteousness and justice. Do you want to know God? Look through the lens of the cross.


3. What happened on the cross is, in one sense, simple: Christ died for our sins. He bore the penalty for our sins so that we can be forgiven by God and reconciled to him. On the other hand, there are so many layers to the work of the cross! Or maybe it would be better to say that the work of the cross can be seen from many different angles and they all fit together to paint one picture that grows more and more glorious as it is viewed from additional angles. That makes it an infinitely fascinating work and an infinitely satisfying work.


4. The work of the cross is the center of everything: the gospel, God’s plan for history, our Christian faith.


5. The cross is powerful. It transforms us and gives meaning to our lives. It is because of the cross that we have become new creatures. And the cross calls us with a powerful call—a call to live out our new-creaturely lives in “the way of the cross.” Those of us who have been powerfully changed by the work of the cross are called by it to “take up our cross daily” and to find the meaning of our lives in sacrifice to God and for others.


6. For those who are redeemed by it, the cross of Christ will be an enduring passion, a passion that only increases in eternity. Christ’s work on the cross is the centerpiece of the new song:
   
   

   “Worthy are you to take the scroll
   and to open its seals,
   for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
   from every tribe and language and people and nation,
   and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God…
   
   “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
   to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
   and honor and glory and blessing!”