Pensamientos sobre el Verso de Hoy
La cruz, en su forma básica, resulta un símbolo muy ofensivo. El concepto de que Dios se hiciera carne para vivir entre nosotros ya es bastante difícil de comprender. Pero que Él estuviera sujeto a los rigores de la mortalidad es incomprensible. Que aguantara lo indignante e inhumano de la cruz es de no creer. Sin embargo el evangelio se compone de tales pensamientos. Lo que parece tontería, algo débil y ofensivo tiene el poder de rehacernos e inspirar una fe sin paralelo. Cuando nos acercamos a la cruz y la resurrección de Jesús, nos acercamos a lo imposible que se logró por la gracia de Dios. Sólo Dios nos daría la salvación de tal manera.
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
The Cross is such an offensive symbol when viewed in its most basic and raw form (1 Corinthians 1:18-24). For God to allow himself to become human flesh and live among us is unbelievable enough. For God to be willingly subjected to the vagaries and rigors of mortality and human needs in Christ is unthinkable. For God in Christ to endure the indignities and inhumanities of the Cross is preposterous. That, however, is the gospel truth! What appears to be foolish, weak, and offensive has the power to remake us and inspire us to unparalleled faith in Christ. When we come to the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus, we come to the impossible, which was made possible and accomplished by God's grace for us, and in us, in Jesus and his death on the Cross. Only God would bring us salvation in such a way.
Mi oración
Padre Santo y Lleno de Gracia, sé que la cruz para muchos es una tontería. Sé que hay mucha gente que se adornan con la cruz, que también la deshonran a la vez. A su vez, confieso que el hecho de que Jesús fue a la cruz por mí voluntariamente me da convicción y seguridad. Gracias por este don de amor y el sacrificio de gracia. En el nombre de Jesús, Amén.
My Prayer...
Holy and gracious Father, I know that the Cross may seem silly and foolish to some people. I know some people who wear the Cross as a symbol don't honor Christ for what he did upon the Cross. But Father, I confess that for me, Jesus' willingness to go to the Cross is powerfully convicting and amazingly reassuring. You have captured my heart with your sacrificial love in sending Jesus to redeem me. Thank you for your gift of grace and Jesus' willingness to endure and suffer for me. In his name, I thank, pray, and praise you. Amen.
