15. The Cross Grants Assurance

The Cross Grants Assurance My last point, the eighth, is this:the cross gives us the assurance of immortality(1 Thessalonians 5:10), “who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.” So the cross finds us where we are by nature and places us where we shall be by grace. The cross begins life and the cross takes us into the life that is forever.

I close with words that are not mine, words that were written by one of the old mystic poets whose poems were so full of the teaching of the cross:

There, as knit into the body Every joint and limb, We, His ransomed, His beloved, We are one with Him.

All in marvelous completeness Added to the Lord, There to be His crown of glory, His supreme reward.

Wondrous prize of our high calling!

Speed we on to this, Past the cities of the angels Farther into bliss. On into the depths eternal Of the love and song, Where in God the Father’s glory Christ has waited long.

There to find that none beside Him God’s delight can be, Not beside Him, nay, but in Him, O beloved, are we.