Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Forgotten Cross

Is it possible to walk in Revival without the Cross?

Sounds like an oxymoron. "A Christian without his Cross"
They synoptic gospels are very clear about taking up our Cross in order to be a fully devoted followers of Jesus the Messiah.

Have you picked up your Cross today?
Maybe it's difficult to answer that question when we have forgotten the Cross.

Here's a reminder from A.W. Tozer
"The cross is the symbol of Christianity, and the cross speaks of death and separation, never of compromise. No one ever compromised with a cross. The cross separated between the dead and the living. The timid and the fearful will cry "Extreme!" and they will be right. The cross is the essence of all that is extreme and final. The message of Christ is a call across a gulf from death to life, from sin to righteousness and from Satan to God." (The Set of the Sail, 35,36.)

Is it possible that if I pickup my Cross daily you will stop seeing me and start seeing the Jesus in me?
To walk in spiritual renewal with my Cross, my goal for today!!

Pastor CJ
Living Word Fellowship Reading, PA

1 comment:

Pastor CJ said...

Are we picking up the Old Cross or a New One?

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them.
The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses.
The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.
The old cross brought tears and blood; the new cross brings laughter.
The flesh, smiling and confident, preaches and sings about the cross; before that cross it bows and toward that cross it points with carefully staged histrionics--but upon that cross it will not die, and the reproach of that cross it stubbornly refuses to bear.
(Tozer, The Pursuit of Man, 53,54.)

Remembering the Cross
Pastor CJ