The Cross
At a Bible convention in the state of Illinois many years ago, an old man stood up and gave the following testimony.
He said that his father had died when he was very young, and that he remembered only one thing about his father, and that one thing had followed him all through life. He could not remember his father’s death, he had no recollection of his funeral, but he recalled him one winter night carving from a small chip of wood a little cross. Then with tears in his eyes he held it up, telling how God in His love had sent His Son into the world to die and shed His blood to redeem us at Calvary. As young as he was at the time, the story of the cross had followed him all through life…he never forgot the most important event and story in all of the earth’s history.
Does the cross mean something to you? Paul wrote, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18). He also said, “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Galatians 6:14).
