The Cross Says It All

         
          Those Levitical priests in the Old Testament had a lot on their plates!  Can you imagine trying to keep up with every rite and ritual, every feast and memorial, every sacrifice or scapegoat--and all the specific commands attending each?  I wonder how they managed a master calendar (it's not like they had iPhones)?
           It's fascinating--all those detailed events to keep the Israelites connected to their history with God and grounded in their faith. In light of that, it is interesting that in the New Testament under the law of Christ we are given only two memorials and they each point to the same event.  Both baptism and communion symbolize the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.  It is this minimalism that highlights the focus God wants for us.  The cross claims the single spotlight in the history of Chritianity.  The cross says it all.

Galatians 5:14
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.