Persuaded by the Cross

I hope that today, Good Friday, will serve as a time of serious reflection and soul-searching for you and your family. Apart from the eternal declaration of Christ that "It is finished", we would have no hope. But we have hope! God loves us! He loves us so much, in fact, that he gave Jesus to be the propitiation for our sins. The cross is God's greatest demonstration of his love for us as sinners. Sinclair Ferguson writes, "The cross is the heart of the gospel; it makes the gospel good news. Christ died for us; He has stood in our place before God's judgment seat; He has borne our sins. God has done something on the cross which we could never do for ourselves. But God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that he loves us." It is my prayer that this persuasion would settle into the depths of our minds and hearts.