We like comforts but do not like hard tasks. We recoil from unpleasant things. We run away from things that interrupt our agendas; we do not want to be bothered or disturbed. We look the other way if it means we might have to go out of our way. We despise disruptions; we fret over waiting. We cannot constantly take the easy road and deceive ourselves into thinking that we are true cross bearers. Without self-denial and self-discipline we cannot even get to the price required of dying on a cross.
“Most of us do not mind dying for Christ —we can do that — but what we do not want to do is to be inconvenienced” Walter Brueggemann.
