The cross

1 Corinthians 1:18

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” NIV

In Christendom, we rejoice a lot about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and a little about the crucifixion, infact, in some circles the cross is not given any mention at all because our Saviour is no longer on the cross. But Jesus did something to always put the cross before us when He instituted the Communion or the Lord’s Supper as it is called in more traditional settings. He said, as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do shew forth my death. So we are not to run away from the cross but run to it. 

Paul also said something that lends weight to this; he said he seeks only to know amongst the people Jesus and Him crucified not resurrected. We have to embrace the cross if we are to have a real resurrection. Moreover, our text for meditation reveals that when we embrace the message of the cross as believers, we are actually embracing the power of God. There are some things that come to us as you look at the cross and what it symbolizes in our Christian walk without which we will not have the fullness of the life in Christ.


The first of these is DEATH. The cross speaks about death. The believer is supposed to be a dead person, in fact every believer is a living dead. To be a child of God you died with Jesus on the cross and also resurrected with Him. The problem is that many don’t want the death experience but the resurrection life, therefore it seems many people just fainted and got resuscitated. 

This is why there is not much difference between their old lives and the new ones. But the Scripture says, “He that is Christ Jesus, is a new creature, old things are passed away. Behold all things are become new.” You cannot be a new creature without going through the cross.