Walking In The Way Of The Cross

 All believers are children of God, but there is a vital difference between being saved as a son or daughter and following the Lord as His disciple. We are saved from our sins because we trusted Jesus as Savior Who died on the Cross. We are saved by grace through faith in Christ. But to become a true disciple, we must take up our own cross daily, and follow the Lord Jesus. We are to be Walking In The Way Of The Cross.
 To be a disciple, it must not only be hearing the Word and being a listener, but it is also doing the Word and applying it. It is not only knowing that Christ has identified with our sins, but that we are to identify with Christ (discipleship). We are to identify with His surrender, His sacrifice, and His suffering.
 We are to be like Christ in His humanity and to deny ourselves if we are to be His disciples, but to do so we are to surrender our lives to the Spirit, to give ourselves as a willing and living sacrifice to the Father, and then to say as did Christ, "Thy will not mine be done." Self, the self-life, and all that is connected with the old sin nature must remain securely nailed to the Cross.
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.

Our United Prayer:
Loving Father, more and more we want to surrender our lives to You, to take up our cross daily as a willing sacrifice and to cry out, "Thy will not mine be done." We pray that our old selves-lives will remain firmly nailed to the Cross. May we submit to Your leading and guiding in all we say and do. In Christ's name we Pray, AMEN.