Whose Cross Is It?!?!

Sorry it has been so long since I have last posted... Things have been busy which is a good thing.  Softball, work, church, missions trip... so this post may be rather long so find yourself a comfy chair, popcorn and a drink.

The missions trip went great.  It was June 10th - 18th.  We went to Wyoming to Frontier School of Bible and to Tentmakers Bible Mission to help with some labor.  Also we went to a town called Chugwater to help with a VBS.  We at CBC support two missionaries working at Tentmakers and we were able to see them and help them out while at Frontier, since one of Tentmakers HQ's is located near the school.  The school is in LaGrange, a small town of 300+ people, Chugwater is smaller with 244 people.

Anyways the drive was 16 hours, so 32 total there and back... my legs were pretty cramped.  The total number of people going from CBC was about 27 ish, 17 or 18 youth, the most ever for a missions trip.  We did a lot of painting, picking up tree branches, mulching, throughout the week.  A group of 7 of us went to Chugwater each day for the VBS in the morning and came back for work in the afternoon.

Everything went very well.  4 kids in VBS trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and I had the privilege of leading 2 young boys on the very last day of the VBS.  It was so cool to see our witnessing effecting then and there immediately.  It really is something to lead a child to Christ, there is not a feeling like it and to see the Lord working through you!!!

It was great to see the young men of the group being chivalrous, and to see everyone get along, the beautiful scenery, an awesome storm, friendships, new friendships and the Lord ultimately getting all the glory.

Now for something else I wanna talk about and that is the title of the post... Whose Cross is it?  When we believers evangelize and preach we often tell people that Christ died on THE cross for YOUR sins.  By all means this is absolutely true and correct.  Jesus DID die on the cross for our sins.  We can easily personalize the sin aspect of it... but what about the punishment for OUR sin.  Romans 6:23 says that "the wages (punishment) for sin is death.  That punishment that is rightfully ours is the cross...

So whose cross is it?  It is OURS!!!  Jesus died on OUR cross to pay the penalty for OUR sins!!!

You know the Romans perfected crucifixion as the most painful way to die, quite possibly ever.  Jesus took that away from us... the spitting, the mocking, the beating, the whipping, the nails driving through his wrists and his feet, the piercing of the spear in His side... He did all this for the whole world if they so choose to believe that He did.

This is His perfect example of love and forgiveness, taking away our cross and sins and placing the penalty on Himself.  Maybe another way to evangelize is to personalize the cross as well.  SO ask yourself... Whose cross is it?  Because that cross... to steal a quote from Darth Vader... was our destiny!!!