Whose cross are you carrying. Before we can help others to carried their cross we must carried our own. Then help pick up your sister and Brother despite how heavy your might be.
Christ tells us to pick up our crosses and follow Him. And so we do. Most of the time, we carry those crosses pretty well. We hide behind it or fake it unto we make it.
Matthew 16:24 King James Bible Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Sure, it’s heavy. It’s not always convenient. There are people who blatantly tell us it’s a stupid thing to do: bear a cross for someone whose existence they say we cannot prove.
By us carrying our cross we prove to the world Jesus Christ is real and lives inside each believer.
It’s when are weary in carrying our cross the world look and say are you the one that was with Jesus just like Peter and Judas we become in denial.
And then there are times when our cross gets so heavy our knees buckle. We fall. Our tongue becomes unruly as we allow anything to come out of our mouth.
We often fall and scrape our knees and elbows. We lay there, under a cross that seems far too heavy for one person. We just don’t know if we can carry ours we can help others carry theirs.
When you see someone lying there, bloodied and exhausted, with their cross bearing down on them, help them.
Pick up their cross, set it aside for a moment. Cleanse their wounds and offer a drink of water. Then, when they are ready, help them stand. Help them to carry their cross, along with yours, just for a bit, until they are able to take the weight of that cross.
Dr. Christina Theresa Maxwell
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