Chocolate Cross

The cross is probably one of the most spotted symbols today. Crosses can be found in churches or on monuments. People wear crosses as jewelry. Singers and rap artists are often seen wearing huge crosses around their necks. You can also find crosses in the food section of Wal-Mart made of chocolate. That’s right! Chocolate crosses!

The other day I was walking through Wal-Mart with my wife and we went down the seasonal aisle in the food section. This is one of my favorite places to go when I visit Wal-Mart. This is the aisle where different things are sold for different holidays. With Easter around the corner, this aisle was full of the colors of spring, with Easter eggs and Easter Baskets and shockingly chocolate crosses! This really surprised me. I would never have thought that anyone would ever turn the cross into food. I think that when we start to see chocolate crosses, it’s time to question whether we know or even understand why the cross is important.

A cross 2,000 years ago was today’s equivalent of the electric chair and it was used to execute Jesus Christ. This is why we should display the cross today.

(Just think! If Jesus had died today, instead of hanging cross around our necks, we would be hanging an electric chairs around our necks instead)

But the fact is, we have beautified the cross into something that it’s not. No longer it is remembered as an instrument of death, but it is seen as a candy or a decoration. We must remember what the cross really was.  God used this tool of death, the cross, to sacrifice the perfect sacrifice for our sins. It is not an ornament, a decoration, or a candy, but the instrument in which God reconciled the world to himself. Through the cross, God poured out his wrath for our sins on his Holy Son. And through Jesus’ death, we can now have a relationship with God and have eternal life. We no longer have to face God’s wrath and punishment when we die, but rather was can now have Christ’s righteousness and his forgiveness.  Jesus died on the cross to free us from the bondage and punishment of sin. He died so that we could become like him. He our father, and us his Children.

I am not agaisnt the cross as jewelry or being seen in a church or anything like that.  I just think we need to remeber the cross for what it really was. It was a tool used to sacrifce Christ for us. Not this neat little delicious symbol with no meaning, but the insturment God used to save us from our sins and change our lives and the course of history forever.

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