Bought at the Cross to be Freed by the Cross

"He bequeaths us his manger, from which to learn how God came down to man; and his Cross to teach us how man may go up to God."

Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, "June 18th" (A.M.) entry reminds me that Christ went willingly to the cross on our behalf not only to pay for our sin, but also to demonstrate the spiritual posture I must take to escape from its hold on me. Unless I die to the cravings of my natural self, I am doomed to live in and for them. But thanks be to God that I can now say with humility and confidence the words of Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loves me and gave himself up for me." I have been freed from my sin!

~TL