Be Cross-Conscious
The apostle Paul, in his letter to the Corinthian church, said that he determined to know nothing among them except “Jesus Christ and Him crucified”. In other words, Paul, who wrote two-thirds of the New Testament, had his mind full of Jesus and His finished work. This was what made him exceptional. He was always conscious of the Cross.
My beloved, God wants your mind full of the cross of Jesus; He wants you to be cross-conscious. But the question is “what does it mean to be cross-conscious?”
To be cross-conscious is to see how Jesus the Christ loves you so much to willingly die on the cross for you. To be cross-conscious is to look to Jesus, who offered His own body to be punished, so that your body can be free from all punishment. To be cross-conscious is to see how Jesus became poor so you could become rich. To be cross-conscious is to see how Jesus became sin so you could become the righteousness of God. To be cross-conscious is to fix your eyes on Jesus, who has provided for your deliverance and victory at the cross.
At the cross, all your enemies were vanquished. All your diseases were destroyed. Your poverty was removed at the cross. Your sins were all wiped out at the cross. When the people of Israel tasted bitterness in the waters of Marah, God showed Moses a tree, which he cast into the waters, making them sweet (Exodus 15:23–26). The tree represents the cross, which turned the bitter waters sweet. Today, the tree of Calvary has turned your bitter situations sweet. Because of the cross, you can expect to see the bitter situations in your life made sweet!
In the same vein when the Israelites were bitten by serpents in the wilderness, God told Moses to put a bronze serpent on a pole. The pole represents the cross and bronze speaks of judgment. Those who beheld the serpent on the pole lived because they saw their problem—the deadly serpent—nailed and put to death on the cross (Numbers 21:6–9).
My beloved, today you too will not die but live when you see all your sins judged at the cross, and with them, all your sicknesses, diseases, pains, failures and defeats! At the cross, all that is deadly in your life has been removed. Therefore be cross-conscious knowing that all was truly finished.
