How many times have we seen a plain cross or place where there is no Cross? The Cross is one of the greatest signs of Victory and of love, and without the Cross in our lives we will never find either victory over sin and death or love. Today there are many people who want to do everything they can so that there is no cross in their lives. People have made full industries of not telling people the truth about the Cross but covering up the cross or making people take down the Cross. The abortion industry and contraception, are forms of this most people will eventually admit that they are killing babies but it is for comfort that they do this so that there is. The truth about the Cross is that Jesus Christ in dying on the Cross made the greatest act of love ever known in the world. But that act of love was not easy. There is no comfort on that Cross. The next time you pass by just a cross without Christ or hear of people wanting to take a cross down because it is a Christian sign, you will see people that want comfort, people like the nice things that are said in Christianity but not the full truth. They do not want to face that fact that if Jesus is going to suffer this much we will also have to suffer, but in our suffering we can unite that to Christ on the Cross and “Fill up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ. “ (Col 1:24) we can join in that great act of love and then we can see the true Triumph of the Cross. We then long to see that great sign of love, that great sign of victory, and that sign is Christ on the Cross. We know Christ hung upon the Cross for us, but after that He rose from the dead and is not in heaven and we too will follow Him if we accept our crosses in life.
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