Cross Of Jesus!

The Cross of Christ means so many things to so many people.

For many, it is nothing more than a piece of jewelry which they use to accessorise their clothing.

For some the Cross is designed for worship; they kneel before the cross and pray to it.

For others, the Cross is an object that contains supernatural power to ward off demonic spirits and the presence of evil.

But what does the Cross mean to you?

Paul gives us some insight in the first chapter of his first letter to the church at Corinth.

In it, he declares that the Cross is both the POWER and WISDOM of God.

It is the power of God because through the Cross, God forever destroyed the devil and his cohorts and broke the power and dominion of sin.

Because of the Cross - still today - the devil is a defeated foe!

It is the wisdom of God because in the Cross, God used a means that neither man nor Satan could have ever foreseen to accomplish redemption for humankind.

- John Torrens

All For My God!

And Jesus said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." (Matthew 22:21)

When we live in a nation, we experience the benefits of road, park or it can be various other governmental services. We render means to pay back or give back to the government in the form of our obedience to the laws and payment of various taxes. In the same way, we use render to things of God. When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, trusting in His incarnation, His crucifixion, His resurrection, His ascension and His seating in the heavenly place. Our old identity conforming to the world and its sinful patterns has ended. We are made new creation in Christ. We experience the blessings of God in our life because all promises are yes in Christ. We simply confess and receive these promises by faith. We render our love, our praise, our worship, our obedience and even our very self because of all the goodness bestowed on us by God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ.