the cross

"There is a place where all our Christianity has to come. There is a place where all our ambition has to be laid. There is a place where our human heart has to break. And that place is Calvary. Too often we parade our Christianity, relish our ambitions and rejoice in our heart for things, which is our capacity to shine and our will to survive.
But everything must come to the Cross. Nothing should pass. What escapes the Cross and refuses to let itself be dealt with by the Cross becomes a rogue and rampant element in our life.
The centrality of the Cross reveals itself in the Christian phrase 'the crucified believer'. Everything is us has be dealt with by the Cross. Nothing in us can exalt itself above the Cross. That which is in us that cannot tolerate the Cross cannot be tolerated."
(Quote from AliveMagazine, October/November 04, p.19)