Christ Crucified, no Fear in – Charles Spurgeon

THE man who has lived a life of service, at last dies a felon’s death! Look upon his head girt with the crown of thorns! Mark well his cheeks whence they have plucked off the hair! See the spittle from those scornful mouths, staining his marred countenance! Mark the crimson rivers which are flowing from his back where they have scourged him! See his hands and his feet which are pierced with the nails, and from which ensanguined rills are flowing! Look to that face so full of anguish, listen to his cry, “I thirst, I thirst;” and as you see him there expiring, can you think that he will spurn the seeker? As you see him turn his head and say to the dying thief by his side, “Today shall you be with me in paradise,” you dare not belie him so much as to deem that you may not come to him. You will outrage your reason if you start back from Jesus crucified. The cross of Christ should be the center to which all hearts are drawn, the focus of desire, the pivot of hope, the anchorage of faith. You may come, sinner, black, vile, hellish sinner, you may come and have life even as the dying thief had it when he said, “Lord, remember me.

“There is life in a look at the Crucified One.”

Surely, you need not be afraid to come to him who went to Calvary for sinners.