When you're physically sick, there's nothing like a good all-remedy to alleviate your pain

and cure your illness.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall presents a life-giving metaphor that compares

our physical ailments to our spiritual dilemma.

You see, every man, woman, and child has a life-threatening spiritual disease, our

depravity, our sinfulness, and during the next half hour you'll gain a whole new appreciation

for the sacrifice paid on our behalf in order to cure the sin problem once and for all.

Chuck titled his message, The Remedy for Our Disease.

It happened off the coast of South China, a harbor that overlooked that area called

Macau, Portuguese settlers many centuries ago, built a massive cathedral.

They took years to build it, and they thought it would stand forever, but in the passing

of time the force of the winds from a typhoon literally swept the thing into ruins, and

the only thing that remained standing was the front wall that stood like a massive fortress

at least from the front.

And a top that wall was a huge bronze cross, and there it stood.

In fact, it stood for centuries, almost as if to say you can tear down the other part

of this cathedral, but you will not cause ruin to come upon this cross.

It was in 1825 when Sir John Bowering was in a terrible storm in the harbor of Macau

in that very same region, and as a matter of fact, he was shipwrecked.

He had no idea though it was in the light of day, he had no idea where there was land.

If you've ever been at sea far enough, and if you've ever been in a storm, you know

how you can lose your perspective and not even have an understanding of where land is.

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