✨ ✨ “The Power of The Cross”
✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — ✨
“The Power of The Cross”
📝 Their Message (Summary)
When my daughter opened a charm kit for her birthday, she gasped with joy over one little trinket: a cross. She chose it immediately, proudly. My own thoughts swirled—would she be judged for wearing it? Had we failed to teach the LDS discomfort with the cross?—but I stayed silent and let her love it.
Months later, when my eye and brow twitches drove me nearly insane, I absentmindedly traced a cross on my forehead and whispered, “I worship Jesus Christ.” The twitching stopped instantly. Hours later, it returned—I repeated it, and again it stopped. I had tried vitamins, sleep, even Botox. Nothing worked…except the Cross.
The lesson pierced me: there is real, present power in the Cross of Jesus Christ. The enemy mocks it, hates it, and counterfeits it with dark symbols. But the Cross is not shame—it is salvation. It is strength. It is healing.
🔥 My Reflection
The scriptures say plainly:
“The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.” (Acts 5:30)
“…with His stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)
Christ bore the curse of Eden’s thorns on His brow, then hung upon a tree to take us back to the Tree of Life. What Adam lost, the Cross restores.
Thomas à Kempis wrote:
“In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.”
And John Scott reminds us:
“Until you see the cross as that which is done by you, you will never appreciate that it is done for you.”
The Cross is not too Catholic, nor too Protestant, nor too worldly. It is Christ’s sign of triumph. It is the love of God in blood and wood. And when I trace it, trembling and weak, I find the twitch stops, my soul steadies, and I remember—I am His.
🕊️ The Invitation
Don’t fear the Cross—embrace it. Let it remind you of His healing power.
Next time you feel afflicted—anxious, restless, trembling—trace His sign over your heart and pray, “I worship Jesus Christ.”
Glory not in yourself, but in Him who endured even unto death, that you might live.
📖 Scriptures to Ponder
Acts 5:30 — Jesus “hanged on a tree.”
Isaiah 53:5 — “With His stripes we are healed.”
Mosiah 18:9 — Stand as witnesses of God, “even unto death.”
Galatians 6:14 — “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.
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