So I meant to publish this a few days ago. I failed. But thoughts haven’t ceased to run through my mind about Good Friday. I am constantly finding myself reflecting back to the cross. I never cease to be amazed at the demonstration of love that occurred there 2,000 years ago, especially when I think that it was planned before the earth was made. To think that a God so holy and powerful and perfect, would love me enough to go beyond any boundaries to demonstrate His love for me, absolutely amazes me.
However, for this post, I hope to reflect on the personal cross that we must carry. Luke 14:25-33 calls Christians to know the cost of following Him. I hope that every day, I count the cost and consider it a joy and privilege to follow Him. I must take God’s Word and live it; absorbing it through reading, deepening it through meditation on it, and applying it through living it. I think to Simon the Cyrene, the man who carried the cross for Christ, as He got to experience one of the greatest privileges in history. To carry the Creator’s cross, from which He would save Simon from his sins as well as you and I. I wonder if he even knew the honor that he was experiencing. However, he carried the cross as Christ commanded. Do we treat carrying our cross and killing our fleshly desires and our own plans and hopes for Christ as an honor and privilege? Maybe if we did, we start picking it up a little more often.
Carry your cross and never let it become a burden to do so.
-Ryan Scott
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