If You Really Knew About the Cross...

you probably wouldn't wear it around your neck and/or spend so much money to be sure to have 24K gold with diamonds cross to show off as 'Christian' jewelry.

If you really knew about the cross...

you'd probably be wearing a pair of feet or the image of a slave around your neck. I haven't seen too many necklaces that look like that.

Jesus makes it clear that if we are truly Christian, a true follower, we will want to empty ourselves. See John 13:3-20. His lesson runs counter to the culture today - even in churches. We want to be served by the church - we don't want to serve! We don't want to stoop down like a slave and serve people! Washing their feet is so not on the list of things that we want to do! Peter said that Jesus was too good to wash his feet - that his Master should not stoop down and wash feet like a slave! Jesus was washing more than feet, He was washing hearts to remove the pride that self-elevated them, made them feel that they were too good to serve, to be a slave. Yet, Jesus came to earth to do just that.

If you really knew about the cross...

you're probably a servant leader.

It's like...

my God, my God!

Believers, have you listened to the news and the world around you, the violence and greed, and tell yourself, "if this isn't the tribulation,  and intellectually you know it isn't because the rapture has not occurred, but the world is spinning out of control, the church is undergoing schism and parts are cooling (see Rev 2 and 3), you reason - if it is NOT the tribulation I really don't want to be there!" And you know that these worsening conditions is impetus for you to more than ever share the Gospel with as many as you can because the Day is surely coming... It's like the storm the weatherman predicts as 30% that becomes 60%, and then severe weather warnings cross your television screen, light up your phone, scream from the radio, and the siren seems to go on forever. And the person just turns over in bed and yells for people to be quiet...