Why the Cross

"I determined to know nothing among you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."

I long for renewed intimacy with the Father and with His Son, but it constantly seems to elude me. Yesterday, I was thinking about this verse while driving to Dulles to pick up a student friend and decided to blog the Cross daily for a year. Is this the key to intimacy? Paul seemed to think so when he said that he did not want anything for the Corinthians except this one thing.

I have no idea whether anyone will come along for the ride and really do not care whether anyone does or not. This will be my blog to re-find intimacy with the Father. If you are seeking the same, you may want to come along on my journey, or share some of your journey with me.

So how can the cross lead me to intimacy? I can see several potential paths: One is that I cannot come to the cross without looking at myself and my own sinfulness. Looking at that may be somewhat uncomfortable, but I hope I will be honest enough to expose myself to the piercing love of the cross. Another is that I cannot come to the cross without wonderful gratitude for the sacrifice par excellence. For me, at least, gratitude leads directly to intimacy as it reshapes my thinking away from myself and onto my Beloved. Yet another path is through understanding time and eternity. The cross stands at the pivot of time - everything before it rotates toward it; everything after it revolves backward to it. I feel sure I will find many more entries to intimacy as I think about the Cross.

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