April is ASSURANCE Month, Day 28When you were dead in your sins and in in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. Colossians 2:13-14

Why was Jesus destined for the cross? Why would he submit his head to be crowned with thorns and his back bloodied? Why would a blameless and a perfectly loving person have to die? He submitted to it for me. It was so I can have my own personal shortcomings and willful disobedience separated from me. All that would weigh me down and slow me are rolled away. It is only at the cross where I can see the light of forgiveness and assurance.