The Redeemer Took Responsibility

As Holy Week begins, many passages teach us so much. Looking ahead, these words spoken by Jesus to His mother, Mary, and His friend, John, (while He was on the Cross) teach us that Jesus was not only willing to become the Redeemer of the whole world for all-time, but He also wanted to take responsibility for those closest to Him in the very moments of His suffering:

"Jesus’ mother, her sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary from Magdala were standing beside Jesus’ cross. Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there. He said to his mother, “Look, here’s your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Look, here’s your mother!” From that time on she lived with that disciple in his home." 

-- John 19:25-27 (GWT)

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On The Cross

In 1992, Galatians 2:20, became a life-verse for me. I first grasped the impact of the Galatians 2:20 message when I read it on a kitchen calendar at the home of Rev. Clark and Mrs. Christine Langford in Greensboro, North Carolina. Beyond information the verse was immediately inspiration and affirmation of the transformation the Lord had already initiated in my heart, mind, and soul.

Galatians 2:20 was printed on that kitchen calendar from the New King James Version of the Holy Bible: I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

While I agree with the hymn writer who penned these words. There’s room at the Cross for me and for you, I have come to know something beyond those words as well: There’s room on the cross for me and for you, too.

Have we or will we go beyond Near the Cross to On the Cross and then even In the Cross?

IF MY PEOPLE...WILL? I WILL! God’s Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
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