Grace And Christianity: The Cross-Symbol Of Grace

The Cross Symbol of Grace

God chose to cancel our sin debt by sacrificing His perfect Son in our place (Titus

3:5; 2 Corinthians 5:21). But He goes even further than mercy and extends grace to His

enemies (Romans 5:10). He offers us forgiveness (Hebrews 8:12; Ephesians 1:7),

reconciliation (Colossians 1:19-20), abundant life (John 10:10), eternal treasure (Luke

12:33), His Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13), and a place in heaven with Him some day (John

3:16-18), when we accept His offer and place our faith in His sacrifice.

To be cross-conscious is to see Jesus, who loves you so much that He willingly died

for you on the cross. To be cross-conscious is to look to Jesus, who offered His own body

to be punished, so

Because of the cross, you can expect to see the bitter

situations in your life made sweet. When the Israelites were bitten by serpents in the

wilderness, God told Moses to put a bronze serpent on a pole. The pole represents the

cross and bronze speaks of judgment. Those who beheld the serpent on the pole lived

because they saw their problem the deadly serpent nailed and put to death on the cross.

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The Cross Symbol of Grace

Like those who behold the serpent on the pole and lived, today, we too will not die

but live when you see all our sins judged at the cross, and with them, all our

sicknesses, diseases, pains, failures and defeats. At the cross, all that is deadly in your

life has been removed. At the cross, our sins were judged, enemies vanquished, diseases

destroyed and poverty removed. All these are the unmerited favor of God, His grace.

When we speak of God 's grace, we mean all the good gifts we enjoy freely in life.

There are so many, we could spend a lifetime celebrating them: good health, good

marriage, children, grandchildren and we can go on and on. A more summary approach

is to affirm that life itself is the fundamental gift, with all its delights. For us, the gift