Scripture Reference: Galatians 6:11-14

The Cross – A Sign of Our Hope of Heaven – Continued

That cross is a sign of our hope of glory. If, (and I say that rhetorically) there is any tomorrow, if there is any Heaven, if there is any God and life yet to be, the cross is a sign of that hope.

Pass by any large cemetery and you will find that most of them have an area filled with hundreds, if not thousands of white crosses. When you look at them you can’t help but think of many other cemeteries, especially American military cemeteries around the world, such as at Arlington, Virginia, in the Philippines, in the Hawaiian Islands, in France. Everywhere, erected above that fallen American boy who has died in battle, our people erected a cross. Why? Because it is a hope. It is a prayer, it is a vision, it is a dream, it is an expectation, it is a promise, it is an assurance that God has prepared some better thing for us than what we know in the sorrow and tears of this life. If we have any hope, any forgiveness, any tomorrow, it lies in the atoning death of the Son of God.

I’m reminded of a story of a little girl in Charing Cross in London:

There was a little girl in the city who lost her way. She just wandered around in the streets of London, crying heart-brokenly, piteously. An English bobby saw the child wandering and stopped her to ask her why her sobbing. The child answered that she was lost and did not know how to find her way home. The bobby said to her, ‘Do not cry. Sit down here by my side and we will find where you live, where home is.’ So the bobby sat on the curb of the street and the little brokenhearted girl sat by his side. He said, ‘Now I am going to ask you some places in London and you tell me if you recognize any of them. Piccadilly Circus?’ ‘No.’ ‘Westminster?’ ‘No.’ ‘Charing Cross?’ ‘Ah,’ said the little girl in her tears, ‘Yes, yes. Take me down to the cross and I can find my way home from there!’ ”

How true for all humanity, for all mankind, for our hopes and our hearts, and our lives! Take me to the cross and I can find my way home from there. This is God’s invitation to each and everyone of us. This is God’s love and mercy poured out in the earth. This is God’s sweet invitation to us today. I invite you all, especially as we celebrate this season of the resurrection, come, come, to the cross. The cross is where we all have to start!

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