Chapter 8: The Cross

O Lord … In the past before I became a child of Yours, like millions of other people in this world, the Cross was merely an instrument to put prisoners in ancient days to death. Nothing more. Nothing less. It had nothing to do with our modern day lives. O, Yes, the Cross has become a fashionable piece of ornament to be worn around the neck, fingers, or ears. And that’s it.


But now, my Lord, after I have come to know You and accepted You as the Savior of my life and soul, the Cross is no longer irrelevant in my every day life any more. In fact it is EVERYTHING. I willingly and gleefully accept this Cross in my daily life. A well-known Belgian writer, Phil Bosrnans, once wrote about the meaning of the Cross and he described it much more meaningfully and impressively than I could. He wrote


“ The Cross brings you back to truth,
to the reality of your vulnerability,
--your exact human size, your insignificance,
your poverty, your feebleness.
The Cross can free you from material things,
which threaten to drown you.
You can cut free from your mediocrity.
The Cross is like an aerial,
which can pick up a message from God.
It won’t take away your pain,
but it will take away the senselessness,
the purposelessness of it all.
You can feel human again
and, perhaps, feel and see everything clearly,
through eyes that have wept.”


Yes, my Lord, I can see now, very clearly through both my eyes that have been thoroughly cleansed by tears. I am now willing to carry the Cross every step of my life so that I can walk side by side with You to the top of Mt. GOLGOTHA.


I will follow You, my Lord.

“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and
take up his cross and follow me.” Matthew 16:24

Amen

A Child of God