ALL BECAUSE OF THE CROSS

All Because Of The Cross

(Short story on Faith)

I grew up going to church. Every Sunday my family was there, listened to thing we didn't understand. Yet in all those years, I don't remember hearing the right message of the Christ explained. I never heard and understand the Gospel. Christmas was always about presents and new clothes, and Ester about bunnies and eggs(believe it or not!!!), with neither day resulting in any spiritual impact on my life.

As I grew, I detached myself from the church, and drifted far away from the moorings of religion, which felt incredibly empty and void of meaning or power or life. I graduated from college and found a job, and looking for answers to my faith and found none.

Then an event happened that changed the path of my life. I was doing a survey for a gas company in West Virginia, and I had to climb a railroad bridge over a dry creek as a part of the job. I don't remember how it happened, but the news later said that the wind was so bad that knocked me from the bridge. I bounced a little before I landed on my neck in the dry creek. I ended in the hospital for more than three months I never thought about it as a miracle and God saved my life for a reason till one day the wife of an older man (that was shearing my room)came to me and looked down into my face and said” My husband just told me what happened to you. We believe God spared your life for He wants to use you. We've been praying for you and we will continue to pry for you.

The lying in hospital with neck traction gave me a lot of time to think.

My searching for meaning of the faith lead me to a church that taught the Bible and a different job with a Christian and I ended up in a Christian college, for all I start hearing the Gospel explained and for the first time in my entire Christian life I discovered who is JESUS CHRIST. and I became a true follower of Christ no matter which church I attend.

Now when I look back into the path of my life, I think of the emptiness of religion. But that has been replaced by the fullness of Calvary. And the changes that happened in my life are because the patience and loving kindness of the Holy God who knowing the depth of my sins, sent His Son to die on a Cross because He was “not willing that any thing should perish but that all[including me] should come to repentance”(see 2Peter 3:9).Now almost  3 years later, I deeply value all people and events that shaped my faith, But it is Christ and His powerful love that have given my life the meaning and significance it never had. All because of the Cross. All because, in His majesty, He came to be my Savior.

True and powerful words

by Charles Wesley

AMAZING LOVE

HOW IT CAN BE

THAT YOU, MY GOD

SHOULD DIE FOR ME, THE SINNER?