prayer and the cross
Yesterday I wrote of how prayer related to the throne of Jesus Christ. Today I want to tackle prayers relation to the cross of Jesus Christ.
The cross of Roman times had no conception of compromise. It didn’t ever make a single concession. It won every argument by killing its opponent and silencing him for good. It didn’t even spare Christ, but killed Him just the same as all of the rest. He was alive when they put Him on that Cross, but He was dead when the pulled Him down six hours later.
When the apostles went out through the Roman Empire to preach, what they preached was the cross. And this foolish preaching of the cross lead to half of the Roman Empire converting to Christianity by approximately 300 A.D..
It did all of this and continued to do it as long as it was permitted to remain what it always had been - a cross.
