If It Wasn't for the Cross
Life can really get you down at times. Where the waves continue to crash in… Or the walls are always closing in… Where you can’t catch a break. This is not a new concept in our day and age. The author of Psalm 46 felt this same reality. With war closing in and the world around seemed to be falling apart… They write to the people that:
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging (Psalm 46:1-3).
The psalmist understands that God will always be there for them therefore they do not have to fear. The same reality is there for us today… The truth is sin has broken the world and without someone to step in for the world, we all would be lost… Artist Chris McClarney writes these words:
I would be hopeless without Your goodness. I would be desperate without Your love. Slave to the darkness if it wasn't for the cross. You have won me with Your kindness. Chased me down when I was lost. Where would I be if it wasn't for the cross? Hallelujah, thank You, Jesus. I was a prisoner, now I'm not. With Your blood, You bought my freedom. Hallelujah for the cross (Hallelujah For the Cross).
The truth is for us today that we would be lost if it weren't for the cross… We would be left to our own way… lost to wander wherever our feet would go… But Jesus Christ stood in the gap for us… so that we are no longer prisoners to the world… That our freedom was paid for on the cross… Friends, today, I want to encourage you wherever you are on the journey of life that Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price for your freedom… And by [His] stripes, [you’re] healed and by [His] death, [you] live. The power of sin is overcome. It is finished, it is done (Hallelujah For the Cross).
You don’t have to wander anymore… Jesus Christ has made a way… I encourage you to ask today… Where would I be if it wasn’t for the cross?
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging (Psalm 46:1-3).
The psalmist understands that God will always be there for them therefore they do not have to fear. The same reality is there for us today… The truth is sin has broken the world and without someone to step in for the world, we all would be lost… Artist Chris McClarney writes these words:
I would be hopeless without Your goodness. I would be desperate without Your love. Slave to the darkness if it wasn't for the cross. You have won me with Your kindness. Chased me down when I was lost. Where would I be if it wasn't for the cross? Hallelujah, thank You, Jesus. I was a prisoner, now I'm not. With Your blood, You bought my freedom. Hallelujah for the cross (Hallelujah For the Cross).
The truth is for us today that we would be lost if it weren't for the cross… We would be left to our own way… lost to wander wherever our feet would go… But Jesus Christ stood in the gap for us… so that we are no longer prisoners to the world… That our freedom was paid for on the cross… Friends, today, I want to encourage you wherever you are on the journey of life that Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price for your freedom… And by [His] stripes, [you’re] healed and by [His] death, [you] live. The power of sin is overcome. It is finished, it is done (Hallelujah For the Cross).
You don’t have to wander anymore… Jesus Christ has made a way… I encourage you to ask today… Where would I be if it wasn’t for the cross?
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