God speaks today Friday | December 19, 2025

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (Luke 9:23)

At the foot of the Cross

The cross was once a symbol of pain and shame, but for Christians today it represents hope and victory. It is the starting point of Christianity and the center of Christ's redemptive sacrifice. Living at the foot of the cross means adopting the same liberating option of Jesus, identifying with the weak, hapless, and marginalized. The gospel without a cross is a diluted gospel, adapted to pleasures and devoid of demands. Christians must die to sin and put Christ first in their lives. It is up to us to live at the foot of the cross and be worthy of salvation to proclaim Christ's glory to the world. Read more...

Cross Reference

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:38)

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18)

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)

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