The Cross

I'm sitting in the Perk Coffeehouse with nothing to do and no one is around. Maybe that's a good thing? I don't know....anyway, for some reason I'm just beginning to think of The Cross that Jesus Christ died on for my sins and what The Cross truly means to me.

Knowing what it means to be saved and to be forgiven is very important.
There have been so many times when I have sinned against my God hardcore and I lose sight of how much He loves and how deep His love is for me.
And because I lose sight of that so often, I continue to beat myself up for what I've done to rebel against God just to satisfy myself. What a selfish mindset!!

God created me to glorify HIM...not to seek pleasure in this world just to satisfy my temporary desires. My purpose in life is set my gaze on God's eternal desires for me. To put all of my effort into HIS will...not mine.

Why do I so often lose sight of what Jesus Christ did on the Cross for me? Why do I keep seeking pleasure from this world?

The Cross should mean so much more to me than just a piece of wood that some man died on. The Cross is something that I should compare myself to. The Cross is the place where I need to lay everything down and completely surrender. Not surrender a little bit of my life....ALL of my life. The sins, mistakes, hurts, inappropriate behavior, wrong heartsets, wrong mindsets, songs, talents, burdens, pains, selfish ambitions, possessions, relationships, and just all the good and bad things in my life.

John 19:30 says, "So when he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is finished,” and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit." What is so humbling about this verse is that Jesus willingly gave up His Spirit. It was not taken from Him; He freely gave it away just so that we could live.

Christ dying for my sins is the humbling portion of His crucifixion. The most amazing part of it all is that He rose again in three days time.
It says in Luke 24:1-12, " 1On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' " 8 Then they remembered his words.

9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened."

Jesus died on The Cross to save me and you from the neverending pain of Hell. He covered us in His blood so that we can be His and so that He can be ours.

He died for me, so I need to live for Him.
You should do the same!

-Liz Hitt