In the Word: He Endured the Cross

Welcome to Hope Mommies In the Word devotionals. Over the next several weeks, we will be narrowing in on specific truths of the gospel to learn how they direct and inform us in our grief. As we study these truths together, we’d love you to use the comments as a place to dialogue with us about what you are learning and share your answers to the questions below. We pray that you hearts will be encouraged as you dig into God’s Word each week with us! 

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2

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God’s eternal decree that Christ would suffer and die meant that because He endured the most difficult sorrow on the cross (Matt. 26:36-46) He can be trusted with the lives of our children. He can be trusted to work out their days, or lack of any days at all out of the womb, for His glory. Free your life to His plans, purposes, and power.

If your theology, your view of God, starts with the good that you expected from Him only to receive this heartache—you haven’t yet seen the fullness of who He is, or His goodness available to you. There is more—look deeper. Fix your eyes on the One who endured the cross for your sake. Marvelously widen your view to the start of creation—His gracious creation of all things for His glory and His astounding creation of all things while knowing that He would die for mankind.

Living for the glory of the God whose character is on display in Jesus’ sacrificial incarnation is purpose; and knowing the Son who died for your sins is how you can come to fulfill your life’s purpose of ascribing glory to Him now and forever.

His purposes never fail; His humility is astounding; His love in sending His Son to earth to die is confounding and true; His worth is indescribable—and we derive tremendous purpose as people in Him. Cry many tears, because this hurts and He understands; and while you do, give Him all the glory for what He can do with our children’s lives, with us, with this world—gracing us through the all-worthy God who decreed He endure the cross for us.

REFLECT:

• Read Isaiah 53:5. What does this verse reveal about what Christ endured on the cross on our behalf?
• How does the suffering of Christ on our behalf ensure us of His great care for us and our babies in heaven?