“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you…”
-EPHESIANS 4:1 ESV
To
be the prisoner of the Lord means that we accept the sentence of death
and are resigned to our fate. We are not the Lord’s prisoner if we are
still
protesting our innocence. If we do not agree with the Lord that Self is
worthy of death then we unnecessarily delay the inevitable.
If
we must take up the Cross and be crucified, it is better to submit
ourselves to it as Christ did, giving up our spirit into the Father’s
hands, and bowing our head in peace. So let us drink the Cup that the
Father gives us. If we struggle and protest, like the two thieves, then
we only prolong our agony, and
the soldiers must come and break our legs. Either way, the Cross means
death. The sooner we surrender to it, the sooner we find Resurrection.
Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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