One Cross Can Change Your Life

     “One Shoe Can Change Your Life,”  is a slogan that, I am sure, refers to the well-known Cinderella fairytale; whereby, she finds her Prince after he returns her glass slipper, and they live happily ever-after.
      I grew up having that story read to me many times.  It was strictly a fairytale, but like all young girls, I held to the dream of finding my very own prince charming.    Little did I realize that He would come in the form of a lowly young man who traveled the country and actually had no place He could call home.  Many, in His day, thought He was beneath them.  They called Him a liar, a fraud, and even claimed He often broke the law.  He was treated cruelly.  He was spit upon, beaten, shamed, and even nailed to a cross.  However, this man became the Prince of Peace, the Savior of the world, and through Him I will live happily ever after. 
     Because of my belief in the only Begotten Son of God, one day I will live in a great city filled with jewels of all kind; jasper, pearls, emeralds, and I will walk on streets of pure gold.  My world will be filled with light created through the glory of God and the presence of the Prince, the Lamb of God. 
     No matter how poor or how badly your earthly circumstances are, there is a Prince charming who has already paid the price to provide believers a way to live happily ever-after.  He can supply all the riches that are of importance.  All you have to do is believe in Jesus for  “One Cross Can Change Your Life.”

     Revelation 21:    10 “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and the light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; ...19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.  The first foundation was jasper, the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony, the fourth, an emerald;  20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz, the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth, the twelfth, an amethyst.  21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. ... 23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”