The cross is about how we relate to God and how knowing God changes us. We are refugees fleeing the oppressive regime of darkness, but God has come to bring us to his kingdom of light through the cross of Christ. Jesus is now our peace with God. His death is our life. His strength is perfected in our weakness. You can’t earn the cross of Christ, but you will have to pay the cost for receiving it by taking up your cross daily. Let us trust ourselves into him who judges justly.

We can know that we belong to God’s eternal family, and know him as our perfect and attentive father by living under the cross of Christ, the only place of salvation, security, and safety. We can trust God for the future because of the cross of Christ. We can be a non-anxious presence to those around us because of the cross of Christ.