SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH THE CROSS

I have a plastic, green cross attached to my key-chain. I discovered it while at the golf practice range a few years ago. I was pulling back to attack the ball with a five iron when I noticed this green crucifix laying in the grass beside me. I immediately abandoned my swing and picked it up to discover that it was a piece of broken garden trellising. Yet it held the shape of a crucifix perfectly.

It may be just a piece of broken trellis but it holds enormous significance for me because it reminds me of Christ’s sacrifice . The Cross of Christ gives even a broken piece of plastic significance. How much greater then is the significance that the cross gives me?


1 Cor. 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.