The Cross

Today I was driving to work and this big black truck driving buy me caught my eye. There was a white cross in his back window and under it this saying...

"Jesus beats the Devil down with two sticks."

Colossians 2: 13-15

When I got to work I looked this scripture up and this is what it reads...
Colossians 2: 13-15 ...
13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed[d] the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.

It really makes me think of the cross in a different way that even though it was a horrible memory from the bible, it reminds me whenever I see it, of the enormous sacrifice God gave to save us, in all of the whole world he gave his only son to save me and you….

For some reason I have always been drawn to the cross as a symbol of the sacrifice God gave for us, but to think of it in the sense that God beats the devil down with it every time someone accepts God into there life. To think that when a person is given a new life through Christ, God symbolically nails their forgiven sin to that cross, displaying for the world to see that those sins are cast away, as if to show the Devil yet another one I will save from your fiery pit.