The Way of the Cross

     If we are to go into the Holy of Holies to meet with the Savior, we will go through the way of the cross.  We are to take up our cross and follow Him.  We all like a fuzzy warm loving gospel that is easy and the way is lovely to Heaven.  The true gospel leads to the cross a prepared cross that Jesus has designed for us to carry.  We don't work our way to Heaven, but we are to die to self.  Our will, our way, what we want and take up the way of the Master.  He went before us and bore a cross to pay for our sins, that is not our cross.  We take up our cross to be conformed to be like Him.  We need to die to our flesh, the desires that are wrong, to live for others and not ourselves.

   

  Paul saw the cross before he was saved and kicked against it, but after He embraced Jesus, He took up His cross and followed Him.  Our cross is a specially designed one just for us.  It is tailored made.  Peter and the disciples saw the cross, when Jesus was being crucified and ran in horror from it.  Jonah saw it and knew he would have to love the unlovely.  The people that has killed and so horribly came against his people.  He got a ticket on a boat going another way.  Unless, we love Jesus and have His power working in us the cross will scare us away.  After the power of Pennecost the disciples died for Christ. 

    Hannah was praying in the Temple.  She was caught up in the Spirit and she saw her cross was to leave her very young son at the doorstep of Eli.  He had not raised his children well.  She would have to have faith and pray that he would raise Samuel in the right way.  Our cross will always have to include faith.  If we don't have faith that God will work, we will shrink from it.  The easy way is not the best way.  He will walk with us and carry the heaviest part.  His way is not burdensome if we walk and are one with Him.  If we go alone, it will destroy us.

     God give us faith to believe that your way is best.