The Sheer Horror of the Cross and the Shocking Beauty of Exchange

Friend, the picture of Christ on the cross, evidently set forth in the gospels, is a picture of the savagery of sin. When we dare to gaze upon Him, we see ourselves without Him. We look upon the horror not just of a man so tortured and twisted, but the twisted nature of our heart apart from him, the torture of a soul bound for hell if no daysman can be found.