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by Sandy Shaw
An author was out walking when he saw the outline of a crane which looked like a Cross. He said to his two friends, “Calvary”. They moved on and suddenly they became silent and pondered.
No-one in the group was particularly spiritual, so why should there be a remark about that death outside the city of Jerusalem?
Why should a Roman gallows haunt that man’s imagination?
Why do people in 2008 still wear crosses?
Is it because that in the depths of man there is something, conscious or subconscious, where he knows that there at Golgotha God has spoken?
Is this not where man finds the solution to the riddle of life, and what many call the mystery of suffering?
I really wonder if, apart from the Cross of Jesus Christ, there is anything of an answer which is at all valuable and worthwhile.
Various indicators point a man to Jesus Christ, but if you omit the Cross, one does not travel very far.
Useful pointers may be helpful, but they cannot give us the power of God, the forgiveness of sin, and the strength and grace which we each so need.
They give no comfort when tears are streaming down your cheeks, or when disappointment engulfs your hopes and dreams, or when your desires and goals are shattered by something you thought would never happen.
Bleak empty barren confused guilty tear-filled lives require the grace and love and strength which flow from the Cross.
At the Cross of Christ we remember that without the sacrificial death of Jesus, and the shedding of blood, there can be no forgiveness of sin.
Whatever personal relevance has the Cross, some 2,000 years later? The same as it had to Peter, to John, and to Mary.
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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Sandy has a weekly radio talk which can be heard via the Internet on Saturday at 11:40am, New Orleans time, at wsho.com.
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