I am currently looking at the way of the cross. It is a terrifying and exciting study. Terrifying to my flesh, and exciting to my spirit! The cross is the altar. From our perspective, this is the place of daily death into His power over death. The daily, hourly, bringing the unworthy sacrifice of my flesh, to His worthy sacrifice of his-ie bringing myself to His action over death. In His energy, i am accepted and renewed, or reconciled. In His already and ongoing power, i overcome daily the desires of the flesh, by entering His killing of them. I cannot be in myself a worthy sacrifice, but I can enter His, and by so doing have my old nature killed once more. This is part of the way and power of the cross! Even the desire to do good in overcoming my own sin, must be killed. I cannot offer my own sacrifice for sin, He has already done this, and I must enter in, and put that fleshly desire to do good or evil or even to not bother Him, to death. The way of the cross, or the patterns in it, are terrifying for us all, and there is absolutely no other way to get to union with God.