The Cross

Are you alive or dead? If you are reading this post I assume you are alive. I am not speaking about physically alive or dead, but spiritually. To be alive spiritually you must be born again, which means you have surrendered your life to Jesus Christ and asked him to forgive you for your sins.

After we as Christians become born again, we must then begin the walk of death. What am I talking about? Paul said in "I die daily" in 1 Cor. 15:31, and in Romans 8:36 Paul talks about facing death every day. Did he merely mean hardships and trials. I do not believe so. I believe he was also talking about dying to his flesh. To the desires of his flesh, whether pride, lust, greed, and even his very will.

This daily dying is a life long process. We must take up our cross and follow Jesus and on that cross die "daily".

When Jesus died upon his cross, He was poured out for the whole world. His blood purchased for us everything we could ever need, including the price for our redemption. But he could only be poured out once he was upon the cross.

I hear a midnight cry going out, run to the cross, embrace it, die there, die to everything except the will of God. Let even who you have always been, your personality, your desires, your dreams, your knowledge and wisdom...let it all die there...then.....

You too will be poured out for others. You will be used by God as a life being poured out for his glory.

We cannot run from the cross anymore. Now is the time to weep and mourn and fast in sackcloth and ashes. Now is the time to cling to our cross as the key to open the door of true life in the present and future. The key of David.

Matthew 16:24-25 says "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. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.