Three Crosses - The Spurgeon Library

In the cross of Christ we glory, because we regard it as a matchless exhibition of the attributes of God. We see there the love of God desiring a way by which He might save mankind, aided by His wisdom, so that a plan is perfected by which the deed can be done without violation of truth and justice. In the cross we see a strange conjunction of what once appeared to be two opposite qualities—justice and mercy. We see how God is supremely just, as just as if He had no mercy, and yet infinitely merciful in the gift of His Son. Mercy and justice in fact, become counsel upon the same side and irresistibly plead for the acquittal of the believing sinner. We can never tell which of the attributes of God shines most glorious in the sacrifice of Christ, they each one find a glorious high throne in the person and work of the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. Since it has become, as it were, the mirror which reflects the character and perfections of God it is meet that we should glory in the cross of Christ and none shall stop us of our boasting.