“Come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”
MARK 10:21
What
does it really mean to be crucified with Christ? Thankfully, God does
not ask us to submit to physical crucifixion in order to prove that we
are disciples of Jesus. When Jesus tells us to take up our Cross and
follow Him, He is not telling us that we must pay the penalty for our
sins. Thank God that Jesus has paid the penalty for us! Taking up the
Cross, for us, is adopting a spiritual attitude of self-denial, of
surrender, and of yielding all that we
have and all that we are to God.
Although
that aspect of the Cross occurs in us day by day and moment by moment,
what Christ accomplished through His death on the Cross is finished,
complete, and settled once and for all. This finished work of the Cross
is the basis upon which we can take up the Cross daily and follow after
Him.
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