The Everlasting Covenant

The Ever-present Cross

Jesus Christ is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,” ² “who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world.” ³ The cross of Christ is not a thing of a day, but stands wherever there are sinners to be saved, ever since the fall. It is always present, so that continually believers may say with Paul, “I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live.” ⁴ We have not to look backward to see the cross, even as the men of the most ancient times had not to look forward to see it. It stands with its outstretched arms spanning the centuries from Eden lost till Eden restored, and always and everywhere men have only to look up, to see Christ “lifted up from the earth” drawing them to Him by His everlasting love, which flows out to them in a living stream. EVCO 270.1