"God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." (Gal. 6:14)

An old familiar hymn begins by saying, "When I survey the wondrous cross." Thus, let us briefly survey the cross of Christ." By the cross, men are reconciled to God. "...That He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross" (Eph. 2:16). Christ "...made peace through the blood of His cross" (Col. 1:20). Thereupon He bore our sins. "...Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed" (1 Pet. 2:24). Therein He "through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God" (Heb. 9:14), and "obtained eternal redemption" (Heb. 9:12).

The hymn closes by saying, "Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all." Let us take up our cross daily and follow Him.