THE OLD RUGGED CROSS – “DESPISED YET ATTRACTIVE”
March 26, 2024THE OLD RUGGED CROSS – “I WILL EVER BE TRUE”
March 28, 2024Cross, as the world knows now, is a glorified, and a glamorised symbol. In doing so, the actual sense of, what it is to be punished on a cross, is completely lost. Cross has now become, a piece of jewellery, an ornament, one wears, without any knowledge or sense of its significance, and the sacrifice.
Sadly, many Christians too, do not know what pain, anguish and suffering the LORD had to endure, to pay for our sins, and purchase our salvation. We kind of gloss over the suffering of cross, or see it through our emotional and sentimental lens, not fully appreciating the Saviour, who willingly endured such cruelty, because of His love for us.
Cross costed the Creator’s blood, and there was no way around it. Hence the third stanza of the hymn “THE OLD RUGGED CROSS” has so much to speak to us.
“In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.”
All that suffering was gladly endured by our Saviour, so that, our pardon can be bought, and also pave the way for our sanctification. May we never neglect the sacrifice of the LORD. May we never trivialise the pardon, the LORD offered us. May we like good, faithful and obedient Christians, take up our cross daily, and follow the LORD, in our thoughts, words and deeds – Luke 9:23.
