Here's Nancy De Maswagamuth.

How many of you have read the story of Pilgrim's Progress at some point?

Good, lots of you.

I love that story and there's one particular scene in that that you will probably remember where Christian, the pilgrim, reaches the cross.

And the author, John Bunyan, says, now I saw in my dream that the highway which Christian was to go was fenced on either side with a

wall and that wall was called salvation. Up this way therefore did burden Christian

run but not without great difficulty because of the load on his back.

Of course we know that that load was his sin, his guilt.

He ran thus till he came to a place somewhat ascending and upon that place stood a cross and a little below in the bottom a sepulchre.

So I saw in my dreams that just as Christian came up to the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders and fell from off his back and began to tumble and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the

sepulchre where it fell in and I saw it no more.

Then was Christian glad and light some and said with a merry heart, he has given me

rest by his sorrow and life by his death. Then he stood still a while to look and wonder,

for it was very surprising to him that the sight of the cross should

thus ease him of his burden.

He looked therefore and looked again,

even till the springs that were in his head

sent the waters down his cheeks.

When's the last time you stopped to look and to wonder?

To stand still a while and just think about what it is that Christ did for you at the cross.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

From May 16, 2022. author of Choosing Gratitude.

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