Dear Friends,
Yesterday I quoted an old hymn, “The Way of the Cross Leads Home.” Thinking many of you might not be familiar with it, today’s devotional is the hymn itself. May it comfort and encourage you as to the future and all its glory. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• I Timothy 2:5 (ESV)

  5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

THE WAY OF THE CROSS LEADS HOME           

“I must needs go home by the way of the cross,

There’s no other way but this;

I shall ne’er get sight of the gates of light,

If the way of the cross I miss.

I must needs go on in the blood-sprinkled way,

The path that the Savior trod,

If I ever climb to the heights sublime,

Where the soul is at home with God.

Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,

To walk in it nevermore;

For my Lord says, ‘Come,’ and I see my home,

Where He waits at the open door.

The way of the cross leads home,

The way of the cross leads home,

It is sweet to know as I onward go,

The way of the cross leads home.

[Jessie Brown Pounds]