At the cross of Christ, a most unique thing happened: God’s love for lost sinners and His perfect justice met. It’s at the cross where the wounds of sin are healed. It’s at the cross where emotional problems can receive healing. And it’s at the cross where real comfort for suffering can be obtained as we meditate on the suffering that Jesus went through on our behalf.
When we turn to Christ and put our faith and trust in what He did for us on the cross, by taking the penalty for our sins, we can greatly rejoice because of the promised deliverance from sin’s penalty and from its power. God’s holiness demands payment for sin, but His love offers pardon. And the only way God could reconcile us back to Himself was at the cross where Jesus took the penalty we deserved on Himself.
And just how was Jesus able to overcome the incredible pain and suffering He knew He would have to endure by going to the cross? We can get a clue by reading (Hebrews 12:2): “looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” You see, I believe, Jesus looked at all of suffering humanity and their doomed state and understood that by His going to the cross He could purchase their salvation. This clearly brought our Savior great joy knowing that His death at Calvary meant that we could be restored back to God. Jesus, rather than look at the cross as an instrument of ultimate pain, torture, and suffering, chose to look at it as an instrument of ultimate glorification to the Father.
May the following quotes, on the cross of Christ, help you to understand just how important and wonderful the events of Calvary really are.1
“The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.” – Max Lucado
“The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.” – Chip Ingram
“Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.” – Watchman Nee
“Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.” – Thomas a Kempis
“All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.” – Oswald Chambers
“The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare or the poets -It is over an old-fashioned hill called Calvary.” – Gipsy Smith
“A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.” – Steven J. Lawson
“We must not forget that it wasn’t the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn’t the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.” – Franklin Graham
“Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well-adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.” – Rick Warren
“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.” ― Fulton J. Sheen
“The cross is the greatest gift God could bestow on His Elect on earth. There is nothing so necessary, so beneficial, so sweet, or so glorious as to suffer something for Jesus. If you suffer as you ought, the cross will become a precious yoke that Jesus will carry with you.” – St. Louis de Montfort
“The essential background to the cross, therefore, is a balanced understanding of the gravity of sin and the majesty of God. If we diminish either, we thereby diminish the cross.” – John Stott
“At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God’s justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.” – Lewis B. Smedes
“Only in the Cross of Christ will we receive power when we are powerless. We will find strength when we are weak. We will experience hope when our situation is hopeless. Only in the Cross is there peace for our troubled hearts.” – Michael Youssef
1 All of these quotes are from the following websites:
50 QUOTES BY STEVEN J LAWSON [PAGE – 2] | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
19 Important Quotes about the Cross | ChristianQuotes.info
Lewis B. Smedes – At the cross, God was punishing Jesus… (brainyquote.com)
10 Profound Quotes from ‘The Cross of Christ’ by John Stott – Juicy Ecumenism
27 Quotes on the Cross to Encourage You When Life Gets Hard (beautysoancient.com)
The Cross Quotes (83 quotes) (goodreads.com)
149 Quotes About The Cross | ChristianQuotes.info
800 QUOTES BY MAX LUCADO [PAGE – 9] | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)