No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax. -Spurgeon
Galatians 6:14, But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
In working on a gift for someone special in your life, the gift itself is the summation of what it took to get it. We men are more likely to get a gift card rather than to spend hours looking for a specific token of our appreciation. Many times, we do not know what that special someone desires because we have not been listening to them when they are talking. We are in our own little world, doing our own little thing. Listening to them and getting them something they have been wanting will demonstrate our love for them.
The work on the Cross involved a whole lot more than Jesus showing His loyalty to what He believed, His love for man, or how His work on the Cross removed the stain on sin from God’s honor. Jesus’ work on the Cross, demonstrated the exact need for fallen man. He did not need to listen to man because He saw the shape we are in; vile, wicked, unjust, helpless, hopeless sinners in need of a Saviour. Jesus’ work on the Cross met that need! His work on the Cross was vicarious- done for another (You and I). It is the satisfaction for payment of man’s sin; it involves the justice and law of God, the atonement, the propitiation, and reconciliation, and the work on the Cross is the Ransom paid to redeem lost man. All of this is of none effect to those who do not believe. It is only when a man, woman, boy or girl, confesses Jesus Christ as Lord that the work on the Cross has any effect to their standing before God.
Friend, do you believe? Have you trusted Jesus as Saviour? If not, call out to Him. Then work of Jesus on the Cross can be applied to your account.
