I want to reduce dying on a cross to a religious experience. However, I have learned on this journey that the cross of Christ is laced into life the way life is. God by flesh entered that for us and with us. We cannot divorce this dying from the painfully hard circumstances of our life any more than Jesus did. When we experience rejection, betrayal, pain or suffering we find it hurts deeply. We experience the cross in life and as life.
“And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” Matthew 10:38 (NASB)
