What the Cross Brought to Us

pamrcone
Apr 6
3 min read

Holy Week has just passed, and I find myself reflecting not just on what we celebrated, but on what we received through the finished work of the Cross of Calvary.

As I prepared and shared during our Wisdom & Grace Winter/Spring, one question remained:

What did the Cross bring to us? This was not a passing thought—it was a prompting of the Holy Spirit, calling me to be open to fully receive what the Cross has already made available.

We have access to freedom. Many of us have even experienced the freedom that comes from the finished work of the Cross—yet we still live as if we are bound. Jesus said in John 8:36: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

The Cross secured our freedom. Jesus became the propitiation for our sins and paid the price in full. Because of the Cross, we have been given liberty, forgiveness, healing, peace, and access to the Father. Yet, if we are honest, there are moments when our lives do not reflect what has already been given.

Some are still living as if incarcerated—bound by sin, shame, and defeat. Others are carrying wounds in their souls that continue to hold them hostage. While those wounds may have come through people, the root is spiritual. As John 10:10 reminds us, the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy—but Jesus came that we might have life, and that more abundantly.

The Cross removed what held us, but we must walk in the reality of that release. There are areas where we have been delivered, yet we revisit what God has already brought us out of—not because we are still bound, but because we have not fully embraced that we are free.

In Colossians 2:14, we are reminded that everything that stood against us was nailed to the Cross.

That includes more than Sin—it includes the weight of our experiences, our sins. The pain, the shame, even the trauma. If it was nailed to the Cross, then we were never meant to carry it beyond that place of surrender.

The Cross also redefined our path. We are no longer required to follow the course of this world. We have been given a new way to walk—one marked by purpose, intention, and grace.

Forgiveness is another gift of the Cross. Every sin, every misstep, every hidden place has already been accounted for. Not partially, but completely. Yet often, what God has forgiven, we continue to hold against ourselves.

Healing was also secured through the Cross. As Isaiah 53:5 declares:"He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.”

Healing is not limited—it is for the whole person: body, soul, and spirit. It is not something we strive to earn, but something we must learn to receive.

Peace was also placed upon Him. The weight, the pressure, the striving that disrupts us—Christ has already carried it. We are not called to live burdened when peace has already been provided.

And the Cross gave us access.We are no longer alienated or separated. We have been reconciled back to the Father, with access to His presence and His promises.

Finally, we must understand this:

We are the fruit of the Cross.

When Jesus said that if He be lifted up, He would draw all men unto Him, there was a result—a harvest. Our lives, our transformation, our growth are evidence of what was accomplished.

The Cross does not only change our position—it changes our posture. What was once hardened becomes softened. What was once closed becomes open. We begin to live differently because we have been made new.

As Holy Week has passed, I carry this truth forward:

I am free.

I am forgiven.

I am healed.

I am restored.

I have access.

And the question remains: Am I living in what has already been provided?

Because It is FINISHED!

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