The Way to Freedom

SCRIPTURE:

‘Whoever wants to be my disciple, must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.’  Luke 9:23

 

OBSERVATION:

Taking up our cross isn’t always what we think it will be.  Take the 2 sisters, Mary and Martha.  Martha believed cooking was her cross to bear. She believed Mary had not yet learned to deny herself- that she was doing the easy thing by listening to Jesus.

 

APPLICATION:

i have been like Martha on occasion and misunderstood Jesus.  Taking up my cross is not an unpleasant expectation for me.  The cross is the process and the place that keeps us completely dependent on God.  Mary’s cross was to say no to anything that would have led her away from Jesus. The cross gives me the power to say no to sinful attitudes and patterns of behaviour, and fears about what others think, and to say yes to Jesus.

 

PRAYER:

Father, help me to identify the things in my life that I need to “die” to in order to yield completely to you.

 

 

Hayley