And he said to all, If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God. (Luke 9:23-27 ESV)
What does it profit a person to gain the whole world, to have everything someone could want here, and forfeit the best that is to come?
Take up your cross daily… You see the cross was the mode of torture in Jesus’ day…
And here He tells us to take up our cross daily. We are to lose ourselves in he Father as Jesus did. The night before the crucifixion Jesus asked God 3 times to find another way for this to happen. Jesus didn’t want to go to the cross.
How many times do we hear God telling us something and we don’t want to listen because it will make us change what we have always known to be true, or what we have always done? Jesus k we the plan and yet He questioned for a different way. It is ok to wonder what God has in store. It is ok to ask of there is a other way. But in the end it comes down to, taking up your cross, and saying not my will but thine be done. We must deny what we want an follow God. Wherever He leads, because I guarantee that it will be better than where we are headed all on our own.
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