He Carried His Cross For You Will You Carry Yours For Him?
Comments(0) When Jesus carried His cross up Golgotha to be crucified, no one was thinking of the cross as symbolic of a burden to carry. To a person in the 1st century, the cross meant only 1 thing; death by the most painful and humiliating means human beings could have developed.
2,000 years later, Christians view the cross as a cherished symbol of atonement, forgiveness, grace, and love. But in Jesus’ day the cross represented nothing but a torturous and humiliating death. Because the Romans forced convicted criminals to carry their own crosses to the place of crucifixion, bearing a cross meant carrying their own execution device while facing ridicule along the way to that death.
Therefore, ‘Take up your cross and follow Me’ means being willing to die in order to follow Christ Jesus. This is called dying to self and it is our absolute surrender to Christ the Lord.
After each time Jesus commanded cross bearing He said:
“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?”
{Luke 9:24~25}
Commitment to The Lord Jesus Christ means taking up your cross daily; it could mean giving up your hopes, your dreams, your possessions and even your very life, if need be for the cause of Christ. Only if you willingly take up your cross may you be called His true and loyal disciple.
{Luke 14:27}
The Eternal reward is worth the price we might pay personally, as an Incoruptible Inheritance awaits those who do His service. Jesus followed His call of death to self: Take up your cross and follow Me with the gift of life in Christ …
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it
{Matthew 16:25~26}
The reward is priceless … by Claire
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