The Cleaving of the Cross
The Cleaving of the Cross
By Danny C. Wash
The Bible uses “cleave” in ways meaning opposite things.
One meaning is to “divide” and the other is to “cling.”
The cross of Christ is like a sharp axe that cleaves
between flesh and spirit to separate in Christ the two
through Christ’s death on the cross and what it leaves
behind as being rejected because it is in Adam and not the new
creation in the spirit being the new race instead of the old.
Our cross in Christ is what we must cleave to and take up each day
in order for the old flesh from Adam in us to die daily I am told,
so that the likeness of Christ can come into our soul to stay.
Our old body is called the body of sin and death and must die,
cleaving from our dead body our spirit and soul, which must leave
in death to be out of that body and in Christ to which they fly.
And when Christ returns, our new physical bodies we believe
He will bring to us from Heaven and them we will receive
to clothe our spirits, then we will cleave to Christ for eternity.
