The Cross, a Doorway

The cross, affixed on the top of church buildings all over the world. It is an adornment worn on a necklace by women and men alike. The cross, two pieces of wood, one vertical, the other horizontal, significant only because Jesus died there a death of crucifixion. The cross is a sacred symbol of every Christian’s faith. The cross is the portal, a doorway, by which mankind enters into a the new life made possible by the willing sacrifice of the Son of God, the Sacrificial Lamb. That blood stained cross facilitated the death of pure innocence so that the penalty of our sins would be satisfied. And so we can be released, set free, from the bondage of sin.

This death of Christ was foretold thousands of years before. God’s chosen, made slaves and brutally treated by Pharaoh, were set free one night by the blood of the sacrificial lambs. The lambs were slain, and the blood was applied to the door frames of each household. The people entered in through the blood stained doors thus escaping the wrath of the death angel. The next morning they walked back out those same doors free to enter into a new life. No more bondage, no more harsh treatment from their task makers. Those people left that cruel land with a promise from God that he would take them to a new land flowing with milk and honey.

Those wooden doors in Egypt spoke of the doorway of the cross. Each smeared with sacrificial blood. But the blood of the cross was much more powerful. The blood of the cross was perfect for there was no blemish in that sacrificial Lamb. The blood of our Savior was powerful enough to take away all our sins forgiving us of every one of our transgressions. So we come one by one to the foot of the cross bringing our sins laying them down never to take them up again. The cross becomes our entrance, a portal, into a new life, an eternal life where we will never be under the bondage of sin, nor will we ever be controlled by the one whose desire is to destroy us. A new life, a new home is ours when we walk through the portal provided by the cross. As that old song says, “The way of the cross leads home.” Is your faith and trust in the One who died on that cross?