Have you looked at the Cross?

The cross is a symbol of beauty and hope and promise and forgiveness, but it wasn’t always that way. In Jesus day, no one…and I mean NO ONE…would have a cross hanging around their neck.

It was an executioners tool. It was meant for pain, humiliation, torture and death.

What’s the difference? Jesus!!

He came to serve us. He came to meet our greatest need. He came to demonstrate a kind of love we could never earn by our own efforts.

As we get closer to Easter we will look at the empty tomb, but don’t forget to look at the cross.

“Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:43-45 NIV)