The Lamb submitted Himself to a Roman cross and by that cross won true victory. He invited His followers to take up a cross, even if it meant going to their own deaths. In fact, we carry that on which we die. He said that if we did not follow His cross-bearing method that we could not be His disciple. We follow our leader in not only taking up our cross, but in learning to relate to people with compassion as He did. We follow Him with a towel and a basin; we follow His lead by being a bond-slave to all. We follow Him by releasing from our grasp position and power; we follow Him in living lives of self-emptying service.
“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:5-8 NASB)
