January 14, 2014

If the cross was all you had ahead of you, would you follow Christ and obey God’s will for your life? If you had no other assurance; if God held back all other helps; if He said no to friends coming to support you; if there was nothing in the natural you could hold on to; if the cross was all you had, would you still follow Christ and do the will of God? Jesus had only the cross ahead of Him. He came to die. He could not focus on family and friends. He could not get caught up on material things. He could not depend on anything in the natural. The cross was the only thing ahead for Him. And because He loved the Father; because of the joy that was set before Him, He submitted to the will of God, taking up His cross unto death.