Take up the Cross

Today's Verse is Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

When the way we go as we follow our God seems to be too hard for us, too hard for us to bear, let us consider the cross by which our Lord endured as he took our place. Does what we are going through even remotely compare to that. For what Christ has done for us, is it unreasonable for  him to ask us to endure? One song writer considering the Thief on the cross next to Christ, deemed him to say that the pain and agony he suffered was "so small a price to die beside the Christ." Can we say any different?  Let us therefore, waver not, but endure looking to our Savior, knowing that what he asks he as already done for us, nor does he ask without purpose but will use it to his Glory, and will reward us in due time.

To God be the Glory
Scott