That Little Room In My Mind Where I Keep The Cross

There's a little place in my mind where I recall the cross. The wonderful cross of Jesus Christ, so eclipsed in this world, so half remembered, so easy to forget though so vital to remember. Amazing the things we need most are the things that get tossed aside so quickly. One can hear a hundred messages, but what about the cross of Christ? What about what Christ did for us?

What really happened on that day on Calvary? Who is Jesus? Why does it matter? We can know one day and forget the next. The busy day, day in and day out can take it away from us. That's why we remind ourselves, that's why our calendar is set up for moments in the week to connect with God almighty. It's because we forget so easily, and lose track of who we are, and what really matters.

What matters is the cross of Christ. From a worldly perspective it seems that nothing of much consequence occurred. A man was whipped, beaten, and nailed to a cross, and left to slowly die. A tragedy right?

That would be incorrect. You see, Jesus was not just a man, he was God in human form. He came for a specific purpose, willingly, and when Jesus was betrayed by one of his closest friends, He already knew that this would happen. In fact, Jesus being God in human form, could've at any time prevented his death. But in fact, Jesus' purpose was to come to Earth and to die a substitutionary death.

Jesus said, "No one takes away my life from me, I give it up willingly" (John 10:18).

You see, reality was broken by our ancestors, and Earth became fallen. That's why all around us we see societies in strife, poverty, crime, and corruption. That's why we as humans suffer.

You see, God's standard is fairly straight forward: It's the ten commandments, really pretty simple stuff: Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat on your spouse, keep the sabbath, and so on. And our problem is that we struggle, we struggle with being good. We want to be good, but we aren't.

Jesus came to fulfill the requirements of the ten commandments. In the life of Christ, we see perfection. But not only did Christ have to fulfill the laws of the Old Testament, Christ also had to pay off our debt of sin.

That's what happened on the cross. Jesus made a spiritual sacrifice sufficient to pay off our debt of sin. The sin problem is everything my friends, its' everything. Every problem in the world, every evil we see around us is due to sin. So what we really need in life and the world is Jesus Christ to make us pure, and make us good, and change us into new people. That's the whole ball game here. The problem isn't just around us, it's within us.

The saying is true that's easier to convince someone of a lie than to convince someone that they've been lied to. Most of us, myself included, were indoctrinated into a comprehensive worldview in public schools and universities that strategically excluded God and propagated a materialistic view of the world undergirded with evolutionary biology and self reliance. The cross is foreign to our thinking and it makes it hard for us to understand it's meaning and its weight of glory. But we must break the indoctrination and begin to understand the world from a new perspective: that of the truth.

There are many lies in this world, and we've been much deceived in everything from relationships to education to work and culture and media and so many other things. Becoming a Christian for me was like being unplugged from the matrix, and finding myself on a hover ship being taught a seeming nightmare scenario regarding the situation of humanity. It was hard to accept, very hard to accept. I was like Neo when he said, "No... it's not possible." His mind refused to accept the truth at first. It's like that when becoming a Christian. We're unplugged from one worldview, and shared the truth, the actual worldview and situation of humanity: Desperately lost in sin, caught in a disintegrating reality set for collapse, a house of horrors of sorts, from which we must escape. It's not an easy thing to accept, especially when we've believed lies our entire lives. Like the narrative of the progress of man, and the narrative of all people being basically good.

The cross was a permanent singularity, in which God divided by zero. At the cross, Jesus Christ became an offering for all our sins. Not just for the sins of one person like me, but for all people, across all of history, for all those who would be willing to access that singularity. And this singularity of the cross is established in a timeless state, it applies infinitely backwards to all past sins before AD 33. And is accessible to us 2,000 years later. It was a single event, with a timeless effect. Spiritually on the cross, the sins of mankind were placed upon Jesus on the cross, and Jesus received the punishment deserved for sin, despite his own sinless righteousness.