Crosses have long been used by shamans and witches, medics and pharmacists to advertise that they can offer sacrifices and drugs but also intercede and pray on your behalf with spirits and deities and even the Most High. The cross symbol was used like this possibly even from most ancient times. Today the Red Cross still use it as their symbol as do other medics and pharmacists. The spiritual side gets played down since times of witch hunts and even the ability to hear confession and pray for the sick is not advertised but traditional medicine includes such services too. Two thousand years ago God Himself used the cross symbol when offering the sacrifice of His beloved Son for us and makes this symbol a sign that this Son, whom He raised from the dead, is the official mediator appointed by God to intercede for us not only in times we are sick or threatened with sickness but whenever we need God’s forgiveness and need to make a clean break from our sin and make confession of it and renounce it. This mediator called the Messiah appointed and anointed by God for this purpose can make a believing adherent to His teachings righteous even such that God would own such a person as His own child forever and appoint them for the resurrection from the dead at His Son’s return. đŠ
So when you pray your most needed prayer to God, pray it because of the cross the Messiah died on and the blood He shed on it and believe God will do it for that reason alone.
