The Cross Was His Own

While going through my folder marked "Sermon Notes & Illustrations," I was able to gain renewed perspective from a poem I read and placed in my archives some time ago entitled " The Cross Was His Own".

In an age where oftentimes everything is preached instead of Christ and His finished work at Calvary, it pays to be reminded that "the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us who are saved it is the power of God" -1 Corinthians 1:18.

When we think of the cross as it relates to the purchase of our salvation and sanctification, Christ did it all, and we did nothing. He did it with His own Cross. The poem reads:

They borrowed a bed to lay His head

When Christ the Lord came down;

They borrowed the ass in the mountain pass

For Him to ride to town;

But the Crown that He wore

And the Cross that He bore

Were His own-

The Cross was His own.

He borrowed the bread when the crowd He fed

On the grassy mountain side;

He borrowed the dish of broken fish

With which He satisfied;

But the Crown that He wore

And the Cross that He bore

Were His own -

The Cross was His own.

He borrowed the ship in which to sit

To teach the multitude;

He borrowed a nest in which to rest,

He had never a home so crude;

But the Crown that He wore

And the Cross that He bore

Were His own -

The Cross was His own.

He borrowed a room on His way to the tomb,

The Passover Lamb to eat;

They borrowed a cave for Him a grave;

They borrowed a winding sheet;

But the Crown that He wore

And the Cross that He bore

Were His own -

The Cross was His own

- Author Unknown