The Cross of Jesus is the revelation of God's judgment on sin. Never tolerate the idea of martyrdom about the Cross of Jesus Christ. The Cross was a superb triumph in which the foundations of hell were shaken. There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross: He switched the whole of the human race back into a right relationship with God. He made Redemption the basis of human life, that is, He made a way for every son of man to the centre of Time and of Eternity, the answer to the enigmas of both.

The Cross was not something that happened to Jesus-He came to die; the Cross was His purpose in coming. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.  (Revelation 13:8) The incarnation of Christ would have no meaning with the Cross.  The purpose of the incarnation was redemption.  God came in the flesh to take sin away, not to accomplish something for Himself. The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both

The Cross is not the cross of a man but the Cross of God, and the Cross of God can never be realized in human experience. The Cross is the exhibition of the nature of God, the gateway whereby any individual of the human race can enter into union with God. When we get to the Cross, we do not go through it; we abide in the life to which the Cross is the gateway.

The Heart of Salvation is the Cross of Christ.  The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened.  But all the cost and the pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God. 

Oswald Chambers