Friday, March 22, 2002
Friday, March 22, 2002
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we
might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
The cross was donated to the cemetery in 1930 by the late Catholic Bishop John B. Morris and
was valued at the time at ten thousand dollars. Today it would be worth perhaps as much as
fifty thousand dollars.
After it was stolen, probably it was cut into small pieces and sold as scrap metal for fifty cents
a pound. Police said the nine-hundred-pound cross probably brought only about four hundred
and fifty dollars. Obviously the thieves didn't know the value of that cross. I guess if you don't
understand the significance of what happened on Calvary two thousand years ago, crosses do
come cheap. Calvary's cross didn't come cheap to God. So, may we not cheapen it by our
actions.
(1 Peter 2.24
NRSV)
A fourteen-foot bronze crucifix was stolen from Calvary Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas,
sometime back. For more than fifty years that crucifix had stood at the entrance to the
cemetery. Now it was no more. Thieves, apparently, cut it off at its base and hauled it away in
a pickup.
Lord Jesus, forgive me for cheapening your cross, and guide me that your cross may shine
brightly through the ministry you have given to me. Amen.
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