Come to the Cross.
The Lord always beckons us to look deeper.
“Come,” Jesus said, “and you will see.”1
The cross, formed of splinter-prone pieces, seems to be the puzzle and the answer all at once. For just as God’s Word endures forever, the Cross is the tangible remnant of Jesus Christ’s life and death, a physical parable He gives us to have and to hold, to treasure and to ponder.
And to worship in spirit and truth.
Jesus restored sight to the blind, opening our eyes to find the Creator in all that He created. To perceive the divinity of a soul instead of casting lots for His clothes.
On the surface, the cross is too simple and non-descript to cause a second look, but with the Spirit, the Cross captivates us, so we can hardly look away, and humbles us, so we barely feel worthy to approach.
Even still, the Lord says come to Me. Don’t be afraid. It is for this purpose that I have come.
The Cross speaks to us about endurance, longing, and fulfillment. It tells us we have a Savior who stops at nothing to find us, who loves us until the end, and who is determined to complete His work, in us and through us.
“The wind blows where it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going,” Jesus said. “So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”2
God gives the Spirit without limit, and Jesus loosed everything on earth. All power and authority that Christ the Lord had in heaven, Jesus distributed to His apostles and disciples. Everything the Father revealed to Jesus, He made known to His friends.3
If Jesus’ purpose was to restore us into unity and wholeness, to share with us the mysterious freedom of the wind, which can be as gentle as a baby’s breath or mighty as a gale, then who does Jesus want us to be for Him?
Jesus wants us to be His. Christ Jesus came to claim us for Himself.
Because the wind only blows where heaven sends it, and the gospel of peace and reconciliation didn’t end when Jesus died on the Cross. Our Lord Jesus Christ was just getting it started.
He preached the gospel of peace and was crucified to set us free and share it. He tore the veil and gave all access to the Father by one Spirit. Jesus said if you want to know, ask; if you want to find out more, seek; and if you want to keep going, knock.
Jesus is the door, and through that door, everyone is united under the banner of God’s love. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him.4
And Jesus sends us as a wind of Love that will carry more people to come and see what He did on the Cross.
