a CROSS the EARTH

Salvation is for all people. That's the reason for the cross.
a CROSS.
the EARTH.

I step away from the cross, I get away from Jesus and what He bore to save me. As a Christian, I need to embrace the cross for all my pain, sorrow, shame, brokenness, etc was laid there so I could taste forgiveness.

The forgiveness of God is a beautiful thing. Every wrongdoing is canceled out because He forgave me. In the book Don't Waste Your Life, John Piper writes that forgiveness is good because it gives us God. I agree with that statement because I am not right with God without forgiveness.

Being right with God through the gift of forgiveness enables me to forgive everyone who has ever hurt me or sought to cause me harm. Forgiveness is an act of grace and also sets me free.

Forgiveness is seen in the cross. I believe people of the earth need forgiveness and they will see it through the cross of Christ, not looking inward but outward.