by T. Austin-Sparks
Conference messages given at Easter in 1954. Edited and supplied by the Golden Candlestick Trust.
The passion of the Cross is the way of our release, and if you consider your own spiritual experience, those of you who have any experience of a walk with God, you know quite well that it has been through times of deep and acute suffering that you have found fresh releases; fresh releases in your spiritual life. Is it not true? Yes, we pass into a time of excruciating spiritual and soul suffering. We do not know what the Lord is doing, what He means by this, what He is after, but we know the features of our experience and know what it is that we are suffering. You and I have got to have a fresh apprehension of the meaning of the Cross. We have to enter more understandingly into the meaning of the Cross of our Lord Jesus... The Cross of the Lord Jesus is meant to be the way of our liberation, of our enlargement, of our escape... The Cross is the law of life, the way of life, and the way to fulness of life.
