At the cross, the worst about us was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him was laid upon us.
HT: @1Passion
Tag Archives: Christ
The Cross Is God’s Truth about Us
The Cross is God’s truth about us, and therefore it is the only power which can make us truthful. When we know the Cross, we are no longer afraid of the truth.
The Center of Salvation Is the Cross of Jesus
The Cross of Jesus is the revelation of God’s judgement on sin. Never tolerate the idea of martyrdom about the Cross of Jesus Christ. The Cross was a superb triumph in which the foundations of hell were shaken. There is nothing more certain in time or eternity than when Jesus Christ died on the Cross; He switched the whole of the human race back into a right relationship with God. He made Redemption the basis of human life, that is, He made a way for every son of man to get into communion with God. The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much. The Cross is the point where God and sinful man merges with a crash and the way of life is opened, but the crash is on the heart of God.
Come and See (The King of Love)
An Often Misdiagnosed Condition
Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that we what want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us. C. S. Lewis said, “The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure and merriment He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God.”
Randy Alcorn, Heaven (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2004), 166.
Drawn by Something Far Better
True weanedness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
Set Your Sails by Jesus
In our fluctuation of feelings, it is well to remember . . . your heart is not the compass Jesus sails by.
HT: @cslchsnmore
A Greater Debt Than We Could Ever Repay
How seldom do we think how much we are indebted to Christ living in us!
HT: @TGC
Doing What Jesus Does
He who is constantly employed in interceding for others, is doing that on earth, which the eternal Son of God is always doing in heaven.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @whitefieldg
Life Is Worship 