Pick Up Your Cross…
Have you ever heard the phrase, “pick up your cross”?
It’s part of a verse where Jesus says, “pick up your cross and follow Me,”.
This is a good, important thing to do.
It’s one of the basic parts of being a Christian.
To pick up our cross means to pick up the practice of obeying Christ and whatever calling He has placed on our life, to choose to lay our self aside, and to follow Him wherever He leads us.
Have you ever read the entire verse?
It’s found in Matthew 16:24 and says,
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me. (NIV)
Did you catch that?
It says to deny yourself.
Too often we try to follow Christ while still doing things our own way and living life on our terms.