A World Without the Cross

When Jesus died on the cross, something happened which changed everything.  Everything that was inevitable was no longer inevitable, only a chosen possibility.  The inevitable is our receiving the consequences for our sins.  The consequences for our sins is separation from God, the One who created us and Who seeks us.  The One Who seeks us seeks us because He loves us; yet, without the cross we would never be able to experience that love which God desires to give and which we so desperately need. 

 

Without the cross there is no way for us to reconciled to God.  Without the cross we are forever separated from the One we must have in our life to live.  The Psalmist expresses this for us as he prays what we find in the 51st Psalm.  "For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.  Against You, You alone, have I sinned...Do not cast me away from Your presence..."  The separation from God which David feared is a thing to be greatly feared.  When we sin and the inevitable separation takes place there is nothing we can do to make things right again.  Once separated from God, there is nothing we can do to restore that relationship.

If there was no cross that inevitable separation would be eternal with no hope of again being at one with God.  It is the cross, the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for our sins, which provides a way out that human predicament caused by our choosing to sin against God.  It is the way God has planned and prepared for us.  There is no other way.  We choose the cross and the One who died there for us, or we choose to live forever separated from the God for Whom our soul desperately longs.