The Day After

  

Was it a day like today – gloomy, rainy, depressing, dark?  It could have been. 

For some it was a day of intense sorrow and mourning mixed with fear.  

The One they followed and loved, the One they gave the last three years of their lives to, the One in whom they had placed their hopes and dreams of a glorious future –

Jesus - was dead.

The cross was empty 

but the tomb was full. 

And now, where was their hope for the future?

For others it was just another day.

One more criminal put to death on a cross outside the city.

Business as usual.

It wasn’t going to affect them much if one more person died.

It’s not much different today.

The significance of the cross is lost on some.

Lives go on, unaffected by the sacrifice.

But for the believer –

the cross changed everything!

Satisfying the justice of a holy God, 

the cross bridged the uncrossable gap between God and man.

We can be forgiven because one day over 2000 years ago Jesus paid the price.

Forgiveness is extended because of the cross.

But the hope of life eternal?   

That came the next day!  

Nothing But The Blood  -  Words & Music: Ro­bert Low­ry, 1876

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

           Oh! precious is the flow
           That makes me white as snow;
           No other fount I know,
           Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Nothing can for sin atone,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
Naught of good that I have done,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Thankful for the cross.