The Way of the Cross

As we consider the incredible, life-changing events of Good Friday, when our Savior gave up His life for us, we must also turn our hearts toward the third day, when He arose in victory! There are many in our world who stop at the cross and never move on.

Poet Annie Johnson Flint reminds us in her poem, "The Way of the Cross," that the cross must lead us all the way through the tomb to the triumph of the resurrection!

Some of us stay at the cross,
Some of us wait at the tomb,
Quickened and raised with Christ
Yet lingering still in the gloom.

Some of us ‘bide at the Passover feast
With Pentecost all unknown,
The triumphs of grace in the heavenly place
That our Lord has made His own.

If the Christ who died had stopped at the cross,
His work had been incomplete.
If the Christ who was buried had stayed in the tomb,
He had only known defeat,

But the way of the cross never stops at the cross
And the way of the tomb leads on
To victorious grace in the heavenly place
Where the risen Lord has gone.

May you and your family experience anew the remembrance of what our Lord Jesus Christ suffered for you on the cross and then secured for you through His glorious resurrection!