Big Problems-Bigger Solutions- Stuck on a Cross

Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.

Luke 23:42

The Chickamauga is a river in North Georgia, and it's also the name of an adjacent battlefield. The Battle of Chickamauga was fought between the Army of Tennessee and the Army of the Cumberland in September of 1863, and some historians say it represented the last real opportunity for the Confederacy to win the Civil War. It was a two-day battle, and a very costly one. There were 35,000 causalities and more than 4,000 fatalities. The ironic thing about the Battle of Chickamauga is its name. Chickamauga is a Cherokee word. It means, literally, "the River of Blood."

The thief in Luke 23 had a big problem. He was stuck on a cross, stretched out and impaled with sharp spikes that left him hanging by hands and feet. But God's solution was literally right beside him. When Jesus Christ died on the cross of Calvary, a river of blood flowed from His wounded side, from His thorn-pierced brow, from His nail-pierced hands and feet; and Jesus told the repentant thief, "Today you will be with Me in Paradise."

Of all our problems, our biggest is sin and death. Of all God's solutions, the greatest is Christ himself.

The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day / and there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away.

Isaac Watts