Mentoring Woman: "A Boasting Matter!"

Mentoring Woman: "A Boasting Matter!":    It has been a few weeks since I last blogged and when my husband asked me about it last week,  I told him I was just not feeling inspired...

"A Boasting Matter!"

   It has been a few weeks since I last blogged and when my husband asked me about it last week,  I told him I was just not feeling inspired to write!  But today's topic of  "The Cross" got a hold of me and has inspired me beyond measure!

Why would I be thinking about the cross when it is almost Thanksgiving?  "That seems almost like an Easter topic," you might say!  As I have shared, I have been doodling through scripture and just finished up Galatians. Studying scripture like this has challenged me and as I finish Galatians I feel like I do when I finish a good book, like I am leaving a good friend!  It is something I have been personally been missing for some time! (Just keepin it real people!)  Paul says a very interesting thing as he closes out this letter in Chapter 6:14:  "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."

The cross was considered a place of shame in biblical days.  It was meant to punish criminals and those who disobeyed the governing law.  Deuteronomy 21:23b says:  "because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God's curse."    This is what makes the cross so fantastic!  Earlier on in Galatians Paul says in Chapter 3:13:  "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."

The cross either becomes the unifying point of mankind because it shows us our sinfulness, our need of a saviour and the great lengths that God went to extend His love to us.  Or the cross becomes the great divider!  But each one of us must choose!

For those of us who name the name of Christ we realize that the cross is a place of forgiveness. The singing group, "Mercy Me", has an excellent song called "Flawless" about this very topic.  I invite you to go to their link and pay close attention to the words:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7EyPTOltw  It is a great reminder when Satan hurls those arrows and claims we are not good enough that "the cross has made us flawless!"

Yes, I will boast in the cross, for it's redeeming power has set me free!
And it reminds me in this crazy mixed up world that I, too, am crucified to its hold on me...for this world is not my home!