By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“. . .His cross daily. . .”   Luke 9:23

To know the cross of Christ, one must be stripped of everything else.

That means consciously stating to Christ that He can take away everything from us but Himself. Anything less is not the way of the cross.

Practically speaking, that entails willingly surrendering one’s clothing, furniture, vehicles, lodgings, holdings, past-times, leisures, health, interpersonal relationships, vocation. . .all of life. . .to Christ.

It is at this crucial beginning that most believers balk. They want to reason that such relinquishment is foolishness, nonsense, illogical.

Yet it is Christ Himself who tells His own that they must let go of mother, father, brother, sister, houses and lands in order to follow Him on the way of the cross. No other source but Christ Himself sets forth the standard. To call that standard foolish, nonsensical, unreasonable is then to argue with the source of our salvation; yet such is unthinkable…

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