Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus
Taking up your cross doesn't mean living with a burden or putting up with mess. It means we are to give up and crucify our selfishness natures daily and follow Jesus.
Matthew 16:24-26
English Standard Version (ESV)
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Gal 5:24
New American Standard Bible
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; Romans 6:6
