If you are indulging in willful sin and knowing disobedience, then get the cross into your heart. Your lack of self-denial mocks your profession of being a Christian, mocks discipleship and crucifies your Lord afresh. There is a way to victory for you. There is strength for your weakness. There is a dying that will bring about a new power for living. We must not restrict self-denial, along with prayer and fasting, to the Lenten season. Lent is meant to strengthen the self-discipline that we should practice at all times.
“And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” Matthew 10:38 (NASB)
