We cannot escape the power...
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We cannot escape the power of the cross on this special day. The old hymn has it right,
"In the cross of Christ I glory, Tow'ring o'er the wrecks of time...." The cross of Jesus
endures. But today's text reminds us of the implications of the veil of the temple rent
from top to bottom and the accessibility that God's love opens to all. There is a practical
side to Good Friday. If the cross is the power of God unto salvation, from that central
truth flows many realistic alternatives. The writer of Hebrews enumerates some of these:
We are to hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering; we are to help one
another with love and good deeds, we are to meet together in worship, and we are to
encourage one another.
Someone has left us with a poem-question:
A dark sky
Two beams of wood
Why do they call?
This Friday good?
Not only do we find salvation in that cross but are driven from that hillside out into the world Christ loved and Christ died for. If we understand this cross at all, the old hymn is more than a hymn. "Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
Someone has left us with a poem-question:
A dark sky
Two beams of wood
Why do they call?
This Friday good?
Not only do we find salvation in that cross but are driven from that hillside out into the world Christ loved and Christ died for. If we understand this cross at all, the old hymn is more than a hymn. "Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
