The Cross Tells Us What’s Wrong With Us
The cross tells us that our biggest, deepest, and most abiding problem is to be found inside of us, not outside of us. Yes, the people in our lives have had a significant impact on us, the experiences of our lives have helped shape the way we see our world, and the locations of our lives have been formative as well. People, locations, and the situations of life all influence what we think and what we do, but they are not determinative. No, the most powerful life-complicating problem for us all is to be found deep inside of each one of us. It is the reason for the cross of Jesus Christ. It is the thing that the cross was ordained to defeat. It is the thing that distorts our thoughts, desires, emotions, choices, words, and actions. It is the universal human dilemma, the inescapable pathology. It is the one disease we all suffer from. It is the problem none of us has the wisdom or power to solve. What is it? Sin. It is the condition of heart that is the fundamental reason for a vast array of personal and interpersonal brokenness. The cross requires us to admit that we, too, have been infected with the virus and are people in desperate need of help. We have not just been afflicted with a fallen world and flawed people. No, we have all been infected with sin. Read more here.
