The Great Liberator

It's impossible to live the resurrection life of Jesus if you have not first died. The Cross is the Great Liberator: it is the place where we all have to die to free us from our old sinful self. As Jesus said, "The grain of wheat has to fall into the ground and die" (John 12:24). The Cross liberates you from yourself, it liberates you to become the son of God that God always intended you to be. The Cross enables God to get hold of a dead person and fill them with his own life. His life is eternal life, not a life that just goes on forever. It is a totally different kind of life from anything you have experienced. The God-life is a life lived free from selfish ambition and self promotion. It knows nothing of self interest and self absorption. You live by the life of Another. The great paradox of the Great Liberator is that the Cross does not set you free to be independent and isolated; it brings you into true servanthood with Jesus as your living Lord. There is an old hymn that says, "Make me a captive Lord, and then I shall be free." You are liberated to be God's captive!