How many of we who say we follow Christ despise His blood and count it a common thing? Do we not know that it was shed for our sin? Why then do we wallow in our sin any longer? We are not prisoners if He has set us free. Yet we yearn for the world and seek every opportunity to taste of its fruit and pleasure in its enticements. Do we not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Why do we who claim His blood make ourselves His enemies by pursuing those things that He has rejected?
Men of the cross, look up! Gaze upon Christ our Sacrifice and reject everything that beckons us turn our gaze. Only Jesus has the words of life and the keys of death and hell. He has opened the prison; let us flee!