Where The Grace Is

Today’s scripture is about taking up your cross. I actually chose this scripture because when I pulled my Bible out, set it down and opened it, I flipped it open to this particular passage and decided it was no accident.

This is taken from HCSB Bible

Take up your cross

Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “if anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it. For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life? What can a man give in exchange for his life? or whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

Meditation and Thoughts

Jesus asks us to deny our own wants and needs and put Him first and foremost. He is to be the priority. We must die to the world, our old selves gone, our new selves in Christ even if it means we give up our lives for Him. To live into Him.

We shall die of our old selves and save our lives in Christ in a new life with Him.

Our lives are hard a lot of the time. The world is cruel and navigating our Christian life with the human-bound world with all it’s temptations, sins, greed, materialistic wants, and so much more is difficult. Separating ourselves from all that daily takes a lot of time and energy and it can be stressful. I find myself needing to spend time in my Bible, meditating and writing my conversations to God (I call the notebook “Letters To My Father”), and those letters contain everything and anything and I write as though I’m really talking to my Father. I confide, I ask questions and inquire, I confess, I talk about my day and my feelings. I write things that I don’t normally get a chance to converse with God about in my prayers. God wants us to talk to Him, to converse with us so that is my way to do that. But more importantly I try very hard to make God, Jesus a priority in my life. I try to take up my cross daily although there are days that are more difficult than others. The outside world invades my life and tries to take over. I’m at war with it most of the time. I don’t give up, I don’t give in.

Do you take up your Cross? Do you find it difficult to do? How do you get through the difficult times carrying your cross?

God Bless and Protect