The Mighty Cross

As I was on the tread mill this morning (Oh what fun) I was listening to Chris Tomlin's song The Power of the Mighty Cross and it started me thinking.  You see crosses every where around our neck, on clothes, on bags, on boots, on our walls (I have them) and even on famous people (in the worlds eyes).  But do we ever really stop and think what the cross means.  The cross was an instrument the Romans used for death, very brutal deaths.  It was the cross that they nailed Jesus Christ to.  It was not a pretty thing.  But our culture has used it for decoration.  I am not saying that we should not wear it on our clothes or around our necks, I am saying that we should stop and think, what does the cross mean to me. 

Mark 8:34-36   When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come afte Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

Jesus gave His life on the cross for us that we might be saved from eternal seperation from Him.
He gave His all that we might have life.  So if we are to follow Him we must deny our wants and give our all for His kingdom and for His glory.

What can take a dying man and raise him up to life again
What can heal the wounded soul
What can make us white as snow
What can fill the emptiness
What can mend our brokeness
Mighty awesome, wonderful
Is the Holy Cross
Where the Lamb lay down His life
To lift us from the fall