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This Easter, look at The Cross: The Ultimate “Reality Check”

This Easter, look at The Cross: The Ultimate “Reality Check”

Last updated on: June 9, 2015 at 10:02 pm by Sean Lowe

This Easter, look at The Cross: The Ultimate “Reality Check” 2015-06-09T22:02:42-04:00 Sean Lowe

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Frequently, we look at people in the public eye and think, “I wish I had her life.” Or, “I wish I looked like him.”

Even more frequently, we look at our co-workers, our friends, and people at church and think, “they have it all together.”

Of course, people’s lives are often just facades.

The cross is real — in fact, it’s the only “real” thing that we have. Because there, Jesus took the all-too-real sins that we’ve committed and said, “I got this.”

This frees us up to actually be real — about our struggles, our pride, our inadequacies — without worrying about putting forth a show. Christ paid for our sins, so we don’t have to pretend to be sinless. Christ took our punishment so we can live free.

When people ask me about the “reality TV” thing, I wish I could say, “Well, really how much of your life is ‘real’ and how much of it is a projection of what you want to be?”

This Easter, let’s get real at the only place where you can be real, vulnerable, and completely honest: the cross.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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