I was in class this morning (at 8:00...). I would normally not be excited about an 8:00 class, but this one is really good (and it only meets once a week).
We are reading through and discussing "Don't Waste your Like" by John Piper. After watching him on DVD talking about the book, we broke up into small groups to read through some verses and discuss. The idea of that chapter was that the cross of Christ is the blazing center of our passion. As we were talking, we read 2 Corinthians 5:21- "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
In church, we talk about sin being nailed to the cross; we may even have a cross in the front that you come and nail something to. But there is so much more than an analogy here. It is not only that our "sin is nailed to the cross" , it is that Jesus was nailed to a cross, and our sin was placed on Him. He who had no sin had our most horrible filth placed on Him, not just figuratively, but actually. Jesus became our sin.
That should never get old.
What was once offense has become our anchor of hope. That is something truly amazing.
God loved us enough to send His son to earth to become our filth and sin... It is hard to even fathom that idea.
That is
the kind
of love a lost world is looking for...
Are you living with your Passion centered around the cross of Christ?
just something to think about
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