God laid the sin of the world, your sin, on his Son made Man. He nailed your sin to the wood of the cross and raised Christ high for all the world to see. Here we see the image of our sin and God's wrath. The Son hangs dead, forsaken by his Father, damned. This is our lot as sinners.
People turn away and hide their faces.
And yet here, precisely here, we see our healing and God's mercy. By His wounds we are healed. There by the grace of God goes he for us. Never has wood been so regally adorned as that wood to which the body of Jesus was nailed. No flag of state or monarch can come close to matching the surpassing beauty of the cross on which was hung the salvation of the world.