THE CROSS NOW

Mark 14:42 – “Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”

Okay, so it was really on a Wednesday.

It should have been “Good Wednesday”.

You just can’t crunch the numbers to fit the sacrifice on a Friday.
Not by any standard, bible or calendar.

However, it’s sort of moot anyway.

It’s moot because for the believer it is always in the now. It’s
always in “the moment”.

I mean on Christmas we are not even celebrating in the right season
for goodness sakes, let alone the right day, yet it never stopped
anyone from opening their gifts of Christmas morning.

The important issue is that regardless of the original day, the “Good”
day of His dying on the cross is still efficacious today. How else
could we properly interpret the following verses? If we feel we have
to invent varying degrees of another glitzy holiday to try to make
that honoring to Jesus, well Friday is as good as any. In the
Philippines there are people who actually allow themselves to be
crucified to “honor” the day. All Jesus ever wanted was for us is to
believe it and confess it.

1 John 1:7 – “But if we [really] are living and walking in the Light,
as He [Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship
with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses
(removes) us from all sin and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all
its forms and manifestations.”

2 Cor. 4:10 – “…always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so
that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.”

I think I previously mentioned somewhere that God is not governed by
our concept of space and time. Everything for Him is on the eternal
continuum.

The Cross of Christ, I believe, is central on that continuum. Pointing
to the past, rooted in the present, and looking onward to the future,
the Cross is steadfast and manifest as fresh today as that fateful day
on Golgotha.

This is why we sing and shout about the present application of the
blood of Christ to the heart of mankind.

It still streams in its cleansing power as if pouring from the veins
of Jesus anew.

It’s supernatural. Thank God for it.

Get in the shower of His purifying blood. Allow it to make you like
new. It will forgive. It will heal. It will instill joy and peace.

Step away from it and be subject to the toil and frustration of daily
living with all of its punishing aspects.

Wayne Watson sings:

It was the blood of Jesus
The blood of Jesus
That opened heaven’s door to let me in
It was the blood of Jesus
The blood of Jesus
That washed away my guilt
That washed away
The guilt of all my sin

It is the Blood of Jesus. It was always the Blood of Jesus. It will
always be the Blood of Jesus.

If you are inclined to celebrate it today, well do that. I do
everyday. Everyday is a “Good” day in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

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