Craig T. Owens

I shared this quote from Andrew Murray in my message this morning, and some people have asked for me to share it. I am happy to do so!

“We long for full victory. And we find it as we more fully enter into the fellowship of His Cross. The Lamb obtained His greatest victory with His hands and feet nailed to the Cross. We abide in the shadow of the Almighty only so long as we abide under the shadow of the Cross. The Cross must be our home. There alone are we sheltered and protected. We first understand our own cross when we have understood His. May we desire to get so close to it that we not only see it but we also embrace it, take it up, and make it our own. Then the Cross asserts itself in us, and we experience His power—to the point that we do not faint under it but carry it with joy. What would Jesus be without His Cross? His pierced feet have bruised the head of the enemy, and His pierced hands have spoiled the devil’s tactics completely (Matthew 12:29). What are we without the Cross? Do not let the Cross go, but hold it securely.” —Andrew Murray