What it means to take up your cross and follow Him? Mark 8: 34 says, And He summoned the crowd together with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
You must be ready to take up your cross and follow Jesus. When you take up your Cross you need to be ready as I said it will not be an easy road once you do. He will call you and you go; with abandon you will go.
But what does that all mean. Taking up you cross means putting all worldly thing aside and putting on the cross of Christ, to be holy and righteous in God’s sight. It means to follow him and do what He says when He says it no matter the cost. There will be a cost for following Jesus and taking up your cross, which I will talk about later in the series.
To take up your cross and follow him does not mean that you are perfect, but to do his will and to keep his commandments. Peter, Jesus's most beloved disciple denied him 3 times. In John 13: 38 says 38 Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times. So not even the Jesus disciples who he calls to pick up the cross and follow him were not perfect.
We do not need to have everything together and learn everything there is to know before you can pick up your cross. Some of the disciples were fishermen and you think when Jesus called them, they had everything together. I would suspect not.
Each disciple He called He asked them to pick up there cross and follow him and they went. Now that you know what it means to take up your cross and follow him, what do you have to give up to pick up your cross and follow Him.
So, ask God each and everyday during and after this series for you to pick up your cross and follow Him.
Verses taken from the NASB
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