The Cross (Daily Devotional)

Hello friends, welcome, we are talking about our victory in Christ Jesus. We have victory because the Lord Jesus has already won the battle for us. Sometimes when we look at the picture of the Cross, the picture seems like a place of failure and shame, and that is what the people in Jesus’s times understood about the cross, because criminals and those who were condemned of some sort of wrongdoing, they were the ones who were taken to the cross. It is amazing to note that the God of the universe would pick something like the cross for His son to die on. What is the mystery of the cross? When we think of the fact that the Lord Jesus died on the cross, it feels like He was unable to complete what God probably sent Him to do, however Scriptures remind us that Jesus had come with the intention to die because that was the only way through which He can become the perfect lamb of sacrifice. It was very much in the plan of God for Jesus to die for our sins. The Bible very beautifully puts it and says, the cross is a mystery, and as we go beyond that picture of shame and failure which the world accepts, we see that this is really the picture of triumph. Let me read for us from Colossians chapter 2, verses 14 and 15, ‘having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.’ This passage tells us that the Lord Jesus made a public spectacle of the enemy, that is satan who is our foe. Making somebody a public spectacle meant defeating them thoroughly. We also note here that He triumphed on the cross. The cross is a picture of our victory and triumph. Some of us might wonder, if Jesus has triumphed on the cross, how does that apply to me? Paul wrote in Romans chapter 8, verse 37, he said, ‘Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.’ This is God’s intention that He has conquered and through that we become conquerors, He has triumphed, through that we have become triumphant. Remember, that the cross is a picture of triumph, always look to the cross because the cross has overcome sin, sickness, satan, and death.

Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank you, that you are victorious, and you have called us to be victorious. We pray that you will establish us in the work of the cross, that we might know that every single day we are victorious in Christ Jesus. We pray that the Holy Spirit will make this is a reality in our hearts, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

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