BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 22

BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 22

 He who did not spare his own Son . . . how will he not

also, . . . give us all things? ROMANS 8 : 3 2 ( N I V )

Jesus hung on the cross for three hours,

wracked with white-hot physical pain, crushed by the

weight of guilt and shame and sin that was ours but

became His. Suddenly, the birds stopped chirping, the

breeze stopped blowing, and everything became deathly

still as darkness—pitch-black darkness—descended. The

cries that could be heard were no longer just coming from

the victims on the crosses but from the bystanders as they

cowered, then fled in panic. Even the hardened soldiers

must have shuddered at the supernatural power and anger

that permeated the atmosphere.

The eerie darkness that descended was not just nature

feeling sorry for the Creator who was nailed to the altar

of the cross. It was the very judgment of God for your

sins and mine.

Your sin has been judged at the cross, so you can be

saved from judgment. Are you saved?

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