The cross is the universal symbol of Christianity.  An odd 
choice, don’t you think?  
Strange that a tool of torture would come to 
embody a movement of hope. It’s design couldn’t be simpler. One beam 
horizontal—the other vertical. One reaches out like God’s love. 
The 
other reaches up, as does God’s holiness. 
One represents the width of 
His love; the other the height of His holiness. 
The cross is the 
intersection. The cross is where God forgave His children without 
lowering His standards. God treated His Son as a sinner, so that Christ 
could make us acceptable to God. Why would He do it?
John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world.” Aren’t you glad the 
verse doesn’t read:  For God so loved the rich?. . .the famous? Or the 
sober or successful? No, it simply reads: “For God so loved the world!”
From He Chose the Nails
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