Meditate frequently on the life of our blessed Lord and Master Jesus Christ. Follow him from his cradle to the cross.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @hWhitefieldG
Tag Archives: Cross
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
It Will Be Worth It All
The presence and company of Christ will make amends for all we suffer here below. When we see as we have been seen, and look back on the journey of life, we shall wonder at our own faintness of heart. We shall marvel that we made so much of our cross, and thought so little of our crown. We shall marvel that in ‘counting the cross’ we could ever doubt on which side the balance of profit lay.
The Judas Kiss of Preaching
To attempt to preach Christ without his cross, is to betray him with a kiss.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @tc4cp
The Lightnging Rod of Grace
The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God’s wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
Christ Drank the Dregs for Us
God sees fit that we should taste of that cup with his Son drink so deep, that we might feel a little what sin is, and what his Son’s love was. But our comfort is that Christ drink the dregs of the cup for us, and will succour us, so that our spirits may not utterly fail under that little taste of his displeasure which we may feel. He became not only as a man but a curse, a man of sorrows, for us. He was broken that we should not be broken; he was troubled, that we should not be desperately troubled; he became a curse, that we should not be accursed. Whatever may be wished for in an all-sufficient comforter is all to be found in Christ.
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2011), 66.
We Can’t Play Fast and Loose with the Gospel!
We cannot … play fast and loose with the Gospel. He who reads his Bible, he who lives by the Gospels and Epistles as his light and his guide, must find that the keystone of the arch is the atonement; must find it is finished, in the sense of the accomplishment of the sacrifice and the propitiation for sin, written everywhere upon every doctrine and every precept and every promise of the Gospel.
Charles John Vaughan, Words from the Cross.
Power of the Cross
The Beautiful Sunset on Good Friday
The climax of the glory of His [Jesus Christ’s] life on earth was the way it ended. It was as if all the darker colors in the spectrum of glory came together in the most beautiful sunset on Good Friday, with the crucified Christ as the blood-red sun in the crimson sky. And it was as if all the brighter colors in the spectrum of glory came together in the most beautiful sunrise on Easter morning, with the risen Christ as the golden sun shining in full strength. Both the glory of the sunset and the glory of the sunrise shone on the horizon of a lifetime of incomparable beautiful love.
John Piper, God Is the Gospel (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2005), 65.
Hands That Created the Universe Were Nailed to a Cross
Those hands that keep a million worlds from spinning into oblivion were nailed motionless to a cross-for us.
HT: @CJMahaney
Life Is Worship 