Chapter 12
I Will Love You Forever
I Will Love You Forever
How can [God] be both just and kind? How can he dispense truth and mercy? How can he redeem the sinner without endorsing the sin?
Can a holy God overlook our mistakes?
Can a kind God punish our mistakes?
The cross. Can you turn any direction without seeing one? Perched atop a chapel. Carved into a graveyard headstone. Engraved in a ring or suspended on a chain. The cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. An odd choice, don't you think? Strange that a tool of torture would come to embody a movement of hope...
Why is the cross the symbol of our faith? To find the answer look no farther than the cross itself. Its design couldn't be simpler. One beam horizontal- the other vertical. One reaches out- like God's love. The other reaches up- as does God's holiness. One represents the width of his love; the other reflects the height of his holiness. The cross is the intersection. The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.
(Excerpt from He Chose the Nails page 112-113)
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