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The Cross

By Revd 'Remi Tejumola

Shalom! What is your 'cross'? I heard someone said, 'That's personal to me', 'Which one is yours?' It has been wrongly taught that the problems we face in life are the crosses that God has called us each to bear else we are not real Christians. But what did Jesus call the cross? Let's hear Him out:

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

In the above passage Jesus did not mean sickness, disease, deformity or any such thing as the cross He wanted people to carry. No, a million times 'No!'

The cross of Jesus was not anything like that. His cross was the persecution, the beatings, the denial of Justice and His eventual crucification on the cross at Calvary.

Suffering for the sake of righteousness is the cross. The apostles were arrested and beaten up for preaching the name of Jesus. The Bible says, "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name" (Acts 5: 41). Suffering shame for the name of Jesus is the cross we are called to bear. Not sickness, disease or poverty. That's not suffering for Him. It's ignorance of the highest order.

This Is the cross: "But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled" (1 Peter 3:14). The persecution you suffer in the hands of
unbelievers, loss of job because you will not compromise your faith and so on; are the the things the Bible calls the Cross that all believers are to carry.

Peter the apostle was crucified upside down because of his faith in Jesus. Paul was beheaded. Do you believe in Jesus to the point of death.

Till next posting, God bless.

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