What It Means to Take Up Our Cross

“Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.’ ” – Luke 9:23 Today I’d like to remind you that Jesus calls us to take up our cross and follow Him in order to have eternal life. As part of that, we need to learn what it really means to take up our cross. On the cross, Jesus experienced what humans are afraid of. Most of all, death, but He also died naked. Everything was exposed when Jesus was killed. The friends he trusted betrayed him. When he died, he was tortured. His mother wept uncontrollably knowing she would outlive her young 30-something-year-old son. As a mother, she had to release her son to the world. In life, these are all the things we fear most as parents and people. And God says He does