HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18
The Cross — the power of God! What a paradox, what a folly, what an impossibility — it seemed to Jewish religiousness, and to Greek wisdom! But simple faith understands the mystery well.
The Cross shows me a God who clothes Himself with absolute humility. He bends to this sharpest sorrow, and this darkest shame. And whereas my proud spirit would only rebel against a King who was all majestic, all glorious, all untouched by poverty and grief and disgrace — I am subdued and vanquished by One who comes to me in so lowly a guise. The Sufferer and the Saviour prevail — where the Sovereign must have failed.
The Cross shows me a God who meets and discharges the perfect demands of the law. The divine law hates my sin and has righteously condemned me to die because of it. I cannot answer it for one out of a thousand of my transgressions! But my Lord, whose mouthpiece it is, fulfils its commands and bears its penalty in my place. And this is all I need — this fetters and enthrals me in glad bondage to my Redeemer.
The Cross shows me a God who loves me without stint. Many glasses of water cannot quench His love — the floods cannot drown it. He knows from the beginning the end, so bitter and so shameful — the agony in the Garden, the desolation on the bloody Tree; and yet He cares for me so passionately that He steadfastly sets His face towards this end. My heart of stone is melted thus, and I am led in willing captivity.
So the Cross, to me who am being saved by it, is indeed the very power of the Most High God!
THE MYSTICAL COURT 