The Travesty of the cross;  at least this is what Lee Strobel calls it is the main focus of all Christians.  Why did Jesus die on the cross?  Why do 2 billion Christians celebrate it as a symbol of God’s love and people even beyond the Christian sphere often mark it as a special symbol of hope and blessings.  I think the cross tells us two things.  First it reminds us of God’s love,  For God so loved the world.  This is the easy one, it is not hard to understand that God loves us enough to die for us.  But the real travesty is it proclaims that  God is a “Holy” God, a God who is so righteous, perfect, awesome, and without sin, that the demands of  his Holiness and Grace called for the death of His only sinless son to provide atonement,  the forgiveness of sins.  The cross tells me how Holy God is and that the greatest travesty is not that piece of wood, but my own sin.  It tells me who I am and calls me to my knees to ask and receive this Amazing grace God offers in such a complete, unquestionable, and unarguable way,  “while we were yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly” the Bible states.

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