Christ on a Cross, a Reason for Living?

On the hill of Calvary stands a man he peers this way and that. Now searching the sky, now pondering the ground. I come to him and ask what he is searching for? He replies, 'I was told there was a Christ on a Cross and that this was the way to Salvation.' I shake my head and tell him, 'There is no longer a Christ on a Cross. He got down.'
'Does this mean that there is no longer a way to salvation?' he asks.
'By no means in fact a Christ on a cross could never provide a way to salvation though at the head of the way stands the abandoned Cross. '

A man might keep a dead man's commands and his ways but no one would keep the commands of a man they had never met and who had died before the birth of their grandparents. Only someone who is alive can expect their commands to be obeyed and followed through.