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Benet Hill Monastery, Black Forest, Colorado
Let's never forget that the chief symbol of our faith is an instrument of execution.
For the next three days we'll view pictures that I took of a cross at Benet Hill Monastery just north of Colorado Springs. It's funny how the crosses we erect appear in beautiful places.
The hill of Golgotha was anything but beautiful.
"We must focus on Jesus, the source and goal of our faith. He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Then he received the highest position in heaven, the one next to the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2 God's Word to the Nations
When you look up at the cross you see Jesus, the one who was willing to lay down his life for you because he loves you. Did he go stoically to the cross? No. He went to death sweating blood. He "endured death on the cross" because he knew the power of his sacrifice buried your sin.
However the cross is now empty, not because Jesus' bones lay somewhere in Jerusalem, but because he destroyed death in his resurrection. When you look up at the cross you not only see the death of your sin but the life that is now yours as you are connected to Jesus by faith.
The cross is not an idol. It is a symbol, rather it is THE symbol of your faith.
In the cross of Christ I glory,
For the next three days we'll view pictures that I took of a cross at Benet Hill Monastery just north of Colorado Springs. It's funny how the crosses we erect appear in beautiful places.
The hill of Golgotha was anything but beautiful.
"We must focus on Jesus, the source and goal of our faith. He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Then he received the highest position in heaven, the one next to the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2 God's Word to the Nations
When you look up at the cross you see Jesus, the one who was willing to lay down his life for you because he loves you. Did he go stoically to the cross? No. He went to death sweating blood. He "endured death on the cross" because he knew the power of his sacrifice buried your sin.
However the cross is now empty, not because Jesus' bones lay somewhere in Jerusalem, but because he destroyed death in his resurrection. When you look up at the cross you not only see the death of your sin but the life that is now yours as you are connected to Jesus by faith.
The cross is not an idol. It is a symbol, rather it is THE symbol of your faith.
In the cross of Christ I glory,
towering o'er the wrecks of time;
all the light of sacred story
gathers round its head sublime.
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2015 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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