I overslept this morning, too much NCAA Basketball Championship and Words with Friends with my brother in California. Woke up to an email from Jessie needing me for something and from there the morning got away from me. I have to admit I was not disappointed as I have little to add to OC’s meditation today. He’s still focused on the cross and I’m ready to move on. Maybe that’s the point. I’m always to ready to move on, to turn my gaze away from Jesus Crucified.
It was after all the reason He came: to die. “The Cross was not something that happened to Jesus— He came to die; the Cross was His purpose in coming. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” ( Revelation 13:8 ). The incarnation of Christ would have no meaning without the Cross.”
These words of OC did strike me: “The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much.” There is no doubt that the easy obtaining of salvation is a problem for us. We can’t understand that the gift is free so we add to it; “Jesus plus _____” We fill in that blank with everything from baptism to good works. Then we go the other way. We consider if it’s free; it can’t be worth very much and doesn’t require a response from us. So we fail to see what it cost Our God. We fail to see the enormity of our sin. We fail to appreciate so great a salvation and we fail to follow Him in humble gratitude. “He switched the whole of the human race back into a right relationship with God. He made Redemption the basis of human life, that is, He made a way for every son of man to get into communion with God.” God having made communion with Himself possible, why would we not commune and
Be blessed?
Nick
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