Prodigal: Why is the cross so important?
Me: It was an act of love.
Prodigal: That sounds amazing to me.
This is from the book The Cross of Christ by John R. W. Stott
“God dying for man,” wrote P.T. Forsyth. “I am not afraid of that phrase; I cannot do without it. God dying for men; and for such men – hostile, malignantly hostile men.” Again, because ‘ the holiness of God…. is meaningless without judgement’, the one thing God could not do in the face of human rebellion was nothing. ‘He must either inflict punishment or assume it. And he chose the latter of course,as honouring the law while saving the guilty. He took his own judgement.’
We think God is all love or we think God is all about punishment. Neither one is true. We walk in fear or we have no fear at all. God is both and that is the perfect balance. He guides us with grace and also grows us with discipline at times. It all started though when He agreed to be on the cross instead of making us go.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
John 1:51
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
