The Cross

So, lately I started a new journal of things that I love about the Cross and this is the latest entry. I hope it brings you as much joy as it does me!

"Jesus is the One to whom we cling past, present, and future.

When our past sins threaten to encompass us and to freeze us with guilt it is to His Cross we can run, hold on for dear life, lift up our feet, and truly leave those old sins on the ground where they can no longer touch us. Due to the Cross, they no longer have any hold over us. They are not our master and cannot hold us any longer.

Also, our present inadequacies hold no sway over us. The fact that we cannot be successful in any endeavor on our own is completely fine. It is no cause for shame, but rather boasting. There is no shame in having to thrust oneself upon the old rugged tree. It is in His strength alone that we can accomplish anything and we must abandon ourselves to that.

We also are not in control of the future. Our grapplings to understand or control what is ahead are completely inadequate. We hold no sway over what is to come. When the anxieties of that threaten to overwhelm us to the Cross we can cling. We can hold fast to the Truth that death and satan were conquered and now God has good plans for us.

I wrap my whole being around the solid rock that is the Cross. To allow myself to focus on anything else is to be overcome with anxiety. With reckless abandon I hold onto the One who has purchased all good things for me.

The inadequacies of the past, my incompetence to handle the present, and my inability to control the future all haunt me until on that hallowed ground I am able to surrender."