The Cross

It's always been about the Cross. Ever since God said "Let there be light" it's been about the Cross of Jesus. What's really incredible is that in Proverbs chapter 8 wisdom speaks as if it were a person, and wisdom is remembering how it was with God in the very beginning of time. It reflects on all that it is and how it works, what it's for, and it's own crying out for people to find it.

Then, we jump into the future and find a far deeper definition of wisdom. "But we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." The very wisdom of God is the Cross. It is where God's ways totally overtake our own. It's where God's thoughts are completely unlike our own. It's where God shows the entire universe and the heavens His wisdom. I've tought and described human history before the coming of Jesus as a freight train headed to Calvary. Every single second of history was running down the tracks at break-neck speed to where God's wrath and His love would collide. The death of God Himself on a cross is His own wisdom. Try and wrap your head around that! It's amazing, wonderful, scary, and full of life.

So many preachers never mention the Cross when they preach. I think that if a preacher isn't going to bring it back to the Cross every single time , then he should stay home. It's the very wisdom of God that destroyed the power of sin at the Cross. It's the Cross. It's the Cross. Woodrow Geier said this: "In the Cross, God descends to bear in his own heart the sins of the world. In Jesus, he atones at unimaginable cost to himself." How can we not preach that ever time we open our mouths to the lost?

Remember, it has always been about the Cross. It will always be about the Cross.