Faith And Faith: The Cross Symbol Of Faith

The Cross Symbol of Hope

Whatever situation you are facing, if you’re not confident that God is going to act

graciously and powerfully on your behalf, you don’t have hope. You may really want

things to turn out ok, but it’s not hope unless you believe confidently in the power of

Jesus Christ to get you through, whatever it is you are facing.

So how do we get hope? How are we to be confident towards the power of Jesus Christ

during hopeless situations? Hope is found in hopeless situations when we come to Jesus,

and secondly when we believe in Jesus.

Let’s take look at Matthew 9 verse 18, which says, “While he spoke these things to

them, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, my daughter has just died, but come

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The Cross Symbol of Grace

As someone has said, “At the cross, God gave the most precious thing he possessed

for the most undeserving people he knew.” This truth is vividly illustrated by Christ’s

acceptance of the repentant thief while hanging on the cross. “Today you will be with me

in paradise” (Luke 23:43). As Henk Hamsteeg put it in an article in Challenge Weekly,

“A sin soaked criminal is received by a blood stained Savior. That’s the pure definition

of grace.” And, as Paul declares in Romans 8, his great chapter on the blessings that

come to us through the cross, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us

all how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (v.32). All

things, that is, that are for our good, in time and in eternity ( v. 28). Paul argues here

from the greater to the lesser. If God has graciously given his greatest gift, his Son to die

for us, to meet our greatest need, our need for reconciliation, then this is the guarantee we

have that his gracious meeting of our other needs will follow. “If God is for us, who can

be against us?” (v.31), who