Daily Affirmations - Day 4 - Carrying The Cross - In His Steps
Day 4: In His steps
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for Me will find it (Matthew 16:25).
A true disciple of Christ is... one that walks in the same way Christ walked in, is led by His Spirit, and treads in His steps, wherever He goes. Let him deny himself. If self-denial is a hard lesson, it is no more than what our Master learned and practised, to redeem us, and to teach us.
Let him take up his cross. The cross is here put for every trouble that befalls us. We are apt to think we could bear another's cross better than our own; but that is best which is appointed us...
We must not by our rashness and folly pull crosses down upon our own heads, but must take them up when they are in our way. If any man will have the name and credit of a disciple, let him follow Christ in the work and duty of a disciple.
If all worldly things are worthless when compared with the life of the body, how [much more so] with respect to the soul and its state of never-ending happiness or misery! Thousands lose their souls for the most trifling gain, or the most worthless indulgence, nay, often from mere sloth and negligence. Whatever is the object for which men forsake Christ, that is the price at which Satan buys their souls.
Yet one soul is worth more than all the world. This is Christ's judgment upon the matter; He knew the price of souls, for He redeemed them; nor would He underrate the world, for He made it.
The dying transgressor cannot purchase one hour's respite to seek mercy for His perishing soul. Let us then learn rightly to value our souls, and Christ as the only Saviour of them.
~ Matthew Henry (slightly edited)
Jesus, now my cross I’ve taken,
Broken every sinful tie;
All for Thee I have forsaken,
To Thy bosom now I fly.
~ Otto Bolds pub. 1900
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