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What does the death of Jesus mean?

What does it do?

What place has it in our lives?

Try this simple exercise:

Think through the past 24 hours. Have you thought once about Jesus dying on the cross? Has it changed anything in your life in the last 24 hours? Can you identify one moment, situation, or incident where the death of Jesus has been a part of your life?

Was that convicting? or just confusing?

The God who created the world didn’t come down to earth, live as a human, and die on a Roman execution device at the hands of his own people so that a few obscure theologians could debate it in books and lectures that no one pays attention to. 

God died so that we can live. 

Don’t let that statement be trite. It’s rich, it’s powerful, and it’s the path to saving your soul from a life of worthlessness, scarcity, cowardice, and hate.

It’s the recovery of life. 

Perhaps the most powerful confession, central to the historical Church, says that the purpose of mankind is to glorify God (and enjoy Him forever). God, Jesus included, is at the center of the Universe.

The heartbeat of Creation died on a cross. 

What does that mean for us? 

Think about this: I deliberately asked what that means for “us,” and intentionally didn’t ask what that meant for “you.”