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John Gossner's Treasury
Devotional: March 15th

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And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him. John 19:17-18.

He who carries heaven and earth and all things by the word of His power carries your cross, O soul, and because of His love for you. He calls it "His cross. " His love has appropriated it. For no cross belongs to Him. The heavens and all the glories of the heavens are His. Glory and adoration are due Him both from angels and from men. Now He has a cross, the tree of the curse, of disgrace and death upon His shoulders and calls it His own cross as if He were the guilty one, the sinner that must needs die upon the cross. Thus He goes forth beneath your cross, which He loves as His own, and He bears your guilt. Follow Him, O soul, with your eyes; consider this road of the cross which your Savior walks. Think for a moment! How could God lay such a heavy cross upon His beloved Son? Think of it! Your cross which you should have carried He took from your shoulders and laid it upon the shoulders of His innocent Son, as if you were dearer to Him, and as if you lay heavier on His heart than His Son. Who can comprehend such love? No man and no angel. The angels desire to look into this mystery of God’s love, but they are unable to do so; they also, as we, have eyes too weak and too shortsighted to fathom these depths. But there is something which you can do and which you ought to do, namely, to take up that cross which He bore for you, give it a place in your heart, never forget how heavy the cross was that He had to carry for you, how highly God has loved you inasmuch as He spared not His own Son, but laid your cross, that you yourself could not bear, upon Him in order that you should not perish but be saved and blessed.

Were the whole realm of nature mine.

That were a tribute far too small;

Love so amazing, so divine.

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

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