Thankful Thursday

Have you ever read the Max Lucado book "No Wonder They Call Him the Savior"?
I read it several years ago and was so touched by it that I ended up buying a copy. It is the perfect book to read this week, which we so often hear referred to as "Holy Week". Now, we are not Jewish, so we don't do the Seder thing although many of my Christian friends do attend churches where they engage in this. But....tomorrow, known as "Good Friday" is a day that I am most thankful for. I spend some time in the Scriptures and with this book.

I am thankful for that cross! It is not just a piece of jewelry to me, nor just a Christian symbol.
It is the work of my Redeemer and Savior. It was a horrible way to die. But....
He did it for all of us! I am so thankful for that sacrifice.

Here is an excerpt from the book that is probably one of my most favorite passages:

" There was something about the crucifixion that made every witness either step toward it or away from it. It simultaneously compelled and repelled.
And today, two thousand years later, the same is true. It's the watershed. It's the Continental Divide. It's Normandy. And you are either on one side or the other. A choice is demanded. We can do what we want with the cross.
We can examine its history. We can study its theology.
We can reflect on its prophecies.
Yet the one thing we can't do is walk away in neutral. No fence sitting is permitted.
The cross, in its absurd splendor, doesn't allow that.
That is one luxury that God, in his awful mercy, doesn't permit.
On which side are you?"
(No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, by Max Lucado, c. 1986)

The cross, for me personally, means freedom!
It means my soul has been transformed.
It means SomeOne cared enough to die for me!

He didn't have to do that.....like the old hymn says "He could have called 10,000 angels...but He died alone, for you and me..."

What does the cross mean to you?