“[Jesus] personally carried our sins in His body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By His wounds you are healed.” (1 Peter 2:24 NLT)
Slowly we have drifted away from the biblical truth: “Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Hebrews 9:22). Mankind would like to make the cross a thing of sentiment -- a trinket to be worn around the neck, an ornament on a church steeple or an emblem stamped in gold on our Bibles. A certain romantic interest has gathered around the story of the cross. But it is the suffering and sacrifice of Christ on Calvary that symbolize our utter helplessness to save ourselves. The cross as the supreme symbol of suffering reveals two basic facts that cannot be denied: the depth of man’s depravity and the immensity of God’s love.
-- Billy Graham in “Who’s in Charge of a World that Suffers?”
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