The World is Cross-Country

Daily writing promptYou’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? View all responses

The word is Cross-country, the land where inner healing was purchased by Christ’s Cross. I began my Cross-country trip standing in the lobby of a dorm when in a moment Christ became real to me. Since that moment, I’ve been on a Jesus-trip as He seeks to lead me from within day-by-day and I strive to let Him be my Savior and tour guide.

Everybody needs a Savior because “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” Because of our inclination to sin all people make varying degrees of a mess in their life, in their relationships, and in the world we inhabit. Then we search for a savior. We look for a politician to be our savior, for the government to save us, for education to be our savior, for a career to save us, for a love interest to be our savior, for a therapist to save us, for money to be our savior, and on and on.

With the mess we’re in, we definitely need a Savior but there’s only One! His name is Jesus. He’s the Creator of all that exists who became a man, shed His blood on the Cross to pay the penalties for our sins, rose from the dead, returned to the right hand of the Father, and sent the Holy Spirit so that whoever is willing can now be filled with His presence and be personally guided and directed from within by Him moment-by-moment. (I wrote this last paragraph when I first woke up this morning before coming to and reading today’s Wake-Up Call blog and seeing the words, “We are sinners in need of a Savior.” Here’s the link.)

As human beings we will secretly struggle internally until we find and devote ourselves to the reason for our existence — to have an intimate, personal relationship with the living God. Ignoring God causes us to make something or someone else our god — the focus of our life. Christians are called to conform to Christ, not to a human culture or to our own cravings.

When we truly follow Jesus, off we go into the Spirit-led wonder! Have you started your life-long Cross-country trip yet?

The more a person connects heart-to-heart with God, the more he is able to experience heart-felt community with other people. When people gather for a religious meeting, but neglect to connect heart-to-heart with God and with one another, we have neglected “the assembling of ourselves together.” (See Hebrews 10:25.)

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