What does that truly mean... how does one go about taking up the cross and following?
This morning I was watching "Good Morning America" (I know... lame) and this young girl convinced her family to sell their mansion and give the money to people in Ghana, they gave over 1 million dollars. If you ask me, that is what it means.
Taking up ones cross means that there cannot be any extra luggage, the cross is hard, heavy, and painful but if one chooses to take it up they must have been previously stripped bear of all other things.
I imagine that it is like running naked... let me explain
You are embarrassed, set apart, alone (except the father), without creature comforts, and certainly being stared at!
Living a life like Jesus is not easy, was Jesus life easy? In reading Matthew with Ben I realize that I cannot live like Jesus when I am tied down by the world.
I want to pick up my cross, but am I capable?
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