Unexpected Crisis / Trials expose our Idols. These include, a Routine, Comfort, Control, Image, Financial Security, Health.
Denying ourselves means surrendering our will and our control and following another.
Jesus does not come to arrange my circumstances the way I want them to be, but he comes to arrange my circumstances to change the inside of my life the way God wants it to be.
Jesus denied himself as well as his equality with God and humbled himself all the way to The Cross.
On the way to Golgotha Simon Had to let go of: “I didn’t sign up for this,” “I came for Passover not a crucifixion” and “What are people thinking of me?”
