[UntoHim]

Another provocative thread by Sons to Glory! Keep em coming bro!

My response is going to be pretty similar to Nell's great post.

Notice that our Lord said "Pick up your cross". He didn't say "go looking for your cross and then pick it up". There is no need for us to come looking for the cross. Trust me...the cross will come to you. In fact, if you go looking for the cross, and then find something that you think is the cross, trust me...it is probably not the cross. In my experience and observation, anytime we go looking for the cross, and end up picking up something that is not the cross, we end up losing out on the second part of Jesus's stern admonition "and come follow me".

This was one of the main features and emphases in the teachings of Watchman Nee - that we should always be looking around for a cross to pick up. It seems to me that the poor man was always and forever looking around for a cross to pick up. Eventually, the Lord saw fit to give him a cross to pick up all right - and what a cross it was. May God have mercy on all of those who would seek to follow him.
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