The Cross

[ray]

What does the cross mean to you? Is just some bling bling you wear around your neck? Is some thing spiritual to you? or just cool symbol?

[elkieDannsa' Air An Drochaid]

Hi ray,

well, it certainly does not mean such a lightness as that!

The cross is a symbol of the True Cross upon which Jesus suffered willingly to pay for my sins and to reconcile me to the Father. To me the cross is holy symbol of what Jesus has done for us. I am forever at the feet of the cross of Christ!

Forever belonging to Christ and forever loving Him.

what does the cross mean to you ray?

I pray that this Easter many will remember the cross of the Risen Christ!

elkie

[suzanagimpel]

What does the cross mean to you? Is just some bling bling you wear around your neck? Is some thing spiritual to you? or just cool symbol?

I avoid to use the cross. Because I want people to know who I am by the the way I treat them. Not by the things I care with me. It is like exercising my spiritual witness. If I need a cross hanging on me for people to know that I am a fallower of Christ than my witness is weak. I want to be able to say like Paul did in one of his letters.

Galatas 6:17

From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus

I also definetly gave the wearing of the cross up when in a hotel room by acident I stamble in a porn movie on tv and all I remember of this terrible few seconds was that the women that performing had a cross necless on her. This really made me think. How people disoner the meaning of the cross.

Love Suzana

[Snow4JC]

1 Cross, 3 Nails equals 4 Giveness.

Snow

[gypc]

1 Cor 1:18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

To me, it is the power of God. Not the piece of wood but that Jesus shed his blood for us.

[kittylover0991]

What does the cross mean to you? Is just some bling bling you wear around your neck? Is some thing spiritual to you? or just cool symbol?

The cross is a part of the tree that has been there since the beginning... it was made into a cross and carried by my Savior... it then had to be carried by another man becuaes my Savior could not.. my Savior was nailed upon that cruel tree after being mocked and beaten... my Saviod cried to my Father, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" and "Father forgive them for they know not what they do"... my Lord was peirced in the side after he died on that cross of suffication and a broken heart... it was on that cross that my Saviors blood was shed... His blood cleansed me from my unrighteousness..

When I called upon him.. he saved me from my sin and from teh depths of Hell... he paid a price I could never pay... My Savior died for me on that old rugged cross... It is spiritual.. it is a symbol.. it is real...

When God brought me to my knees, it was because Christ paid the perfect sacrifice.. that I am free...

Crystal

[ray]

The cross is where I come humbly before Jesus because I know I don't deserve his forgiveness. However, I'm blessed that I can come and ask for repentance and forgiveness and that is blood can wash away my impurities and make clean as freshly fallen snow.

[OpenSky]

The cross is what connects us to God .

Jesus said, To be my disciple you must pick up your cross everyday.

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This is what the cross means to me.

[DaniJ87]

The cross to me, is a symbol. A symbol of many things:

God's love

God's Holiness

God's forgiveness

Jesus blood

Suffering

Humility

Denying yourself

Persecution

God's power.

or, in totality:

Being a true Christian: believing and seeing God's love, and His Holiness and justice; accepting His forgiveness, made possible by Jesus' humility, being willing to sacrifice His body upon the Cross- suffering and shedding his blood; and as Christians, we are to deny ourselves, take up our crosses of suffering and persecution, and follow Him- the God who became man, who gave his life, in brutal agony, so that we, His sinful creations, may have Life forever in Him. It also reminds me of God's power, as Christ did not stay upon the Cross, or in the grave..... but rose again, victorious over death!!!

The cross is a reminder of all of this. I don't generally wear it, (basically because I haven't seen one that I liked- most look too gaudy and frilly- which is NOT what the cross was...) but I don't have a problem with doing so.

Thanks for this occasion to remember all that Christ has done for us... and I pray that we will continue to do so throughout the year, and not just the week of Easter.

[juan77]

To me, Derek Prince described it best.

The devine exchange took place at the cross

Jesus died that we might live

Jesus felt rejection that we might be accepted

Jesus was hated that we might be loved

Jesus experienced sickness that we might experience health

Jesus was taken captive that we might have freedom

The list can go on...

One can't throw away the Cross. Whatever we need, we can receive at the Cross.