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\"12-30-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 That is a beautiful cross!<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 I thought so too!<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I was just reading and I found some encouraging thoughts about the cross<\/p>\n

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Charles Spurgeon in his book Joy In Christ’s Presence he talks about the cross and our sin<\/p>\n

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My heart looks back to the time when I was under a sense of sin, when I sought with all my soul to find peace but could not discover it, high or low, in any place beneath the sky.\u00a0 Yet, when I saw One hanging on a tree as the Substitute for sin, then my heart “sat down under his shadow with great delight.”\u00a0 I began to reason in this way:\u00a0 Did Jesus suffer in my place?\u00a0 Then I will not suffer punishment.\u00a0 Did He bear my sin?\u00a0 Then I do not bear it.\u00a0 Did God accept His Son as my Substitute?\u00a0 Then He will never strike me down.\u00a0 Was Jesus acceptable to God as my Sacrifice?\u00a0 Then what contents the Lord should certainly content me.\u00a0 Consequently, I will go no farther, but I will sit down “under his shadow” and enjoy a delightful rest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are not under condemnation because Jesus made that atonement for our sins.\u00a0 Sometimes we need to stop, breath and remember the details of the cross and what they mean in our everyday life.\u00a0 I know I need to be reminded of the gospel!<\/p>\n

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John 14:6<\/p>\n

Jesus said to him, “I am the way , and the truth, and the life.\u00a0 No one comes to the Father except through me.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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