The Cross

I am reminded today of God's faithfulness to provide for all his children. He is serious about providing for all of our needs. Especially for our deepest need, which he provided for in the cross of Jesus Christ. I do not know that I will ever know the depth of my need for the cross, but today I am keenly aware that I do indeed need it take away my guilt and sin. It is a humiliating thing to realize that this is love, not that I ever offered anything to my God, but that he bled, hung on two pieces of wood, and died in the sight of scoffing men whom he created with his thoughts. It is these men for whom he now has loving thoughts towards and, if they will come and humble themselves to accept his death, he will exalt them to be with himself where he is now raised.

"On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.

O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.

Refrain

So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
With its light cast upon this dark way
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
As it leads me to glory one day

In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.

Refrain

To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share."