We mark the day that Jesus died. There are traditions; things we do to remember. But the cross is about change, it is about transformation. It is about something old being broken and something new coming into being. An old way of trying to live shattered and a new way of receiving life coming into existence. The cross changes everything and it can change everyone.
It has dawned on me this year as we looked at what the cross changed in the series, "The Wonderful Cross." Just think about how Jesus death on the cross changed the cross itself. Max Lucado, in the booklet we are giving away this Sunday "He Did This Just for You" writes,
"The cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. An odd choice don't you think? Strange that a symbol of torture would come to embody a movement of hope...Would you wear a tiny electric chair around your neck? Suspend a gold-plated hangman's noose on the wall? Would you print a picture of a firing squad on a business card? Yet we do so with the cross."
The cross changes everything and it can change anyone because it is not something we do with it, but what God did with it and what he still can do today with us. The most amazing thing that I am finding out though is he can still change me.
For the journey...
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