Your Cross

The weight of your cross can feel heavy, unbearable, and difficult. It can seem unfair, unjust, unnecessary. It can feel lonely and painful.

And yet, Christ asks us to pick it up and follow Him.

His words are not just a demand from someone who sits as you struggle to bear the weight of your own cross. They are the words of someone who has carried His own cross burdened with the weight of our sin, our shame, our disease, our despair. They are the words of someone who has walked the lonely road with wounds taken to heal our sickness and blood spilled to wash our sins away.

The same voice that commands us to pick up our cross is the one who cried, “Father forgive them,” as He hung suspended on His.

Your cross may be heavy. Your cross may be painful. Your cross may be lonely. But your are following the One who has power to bring victory from the pain, shame, and death of the cross.

He carried His cross so that you could have the strength to carry yours and He did it first so you wouldn’t have to do it alone.