World Trade Center Cross

I will never forget standing at the edge of the gaping hole in the earth where the World Trade Center Towers had once stood. Towering high above the destruction and the human carnage I saw two intersecting steel beams that came to be known as the World Trade Center Cross.

Fanatical Islamic terrorists murdered 3,000 innocent people when they flew passenger planes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and into the Pennsylvania field. But out of the wreckage of the World Trade Center Towers emerged the 17-foot-tall cross that became an icon of hope and comfort throughout the recovery effort in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Atheists called the World Trade Center Cross “an ugly piece of wreckage,” arguing that it speaks of “horror and death.”

How right they were! The cross shows us at our worst, with our sin and guilt. The cross shows God at His best, because He sent His Son, Jesus, to shed his blood to pay for our sins, to offer us forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life with Him in heaven.

It’s no wonder that godless people hate the image of the cross, for the cross condemns us. Yet, the cross also saves us. The Apostle Paul wrote, “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

I leave you with these words of an old hymn: “Have you been to Jesus for His cleansing power, Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?”

Blessings,

Willie Jordan