"...Take up his cross daily and follow me." ~Luke 9:23
You do not make your own cross... your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love, and you must cheerfully accept it; you are to take up the cross as your chosen badge and burden, and not to stand complaining. This night Jesus bids you submit your shoulder to His easy yoke. Do not kick at it in petulance, or trample on it in pride, or fall under it in despair, or run away from it in fear, but take it up like a true follower of Jesus...
Remember that Jesus carried it; remember that it will soon be followed by the crown, and the thought of the coming weight of glory will greatly lighten the present heaveniness of trouble. May the Lord help you bow your spirit in submission to the divine will before you fall asleep tonight, so that waking with tomorrow's sun, you may go forth to the day's cross with the holy and submissive spirit that is fitting for a follower of the Crucified.
I read the news of the passing of Dr. Milton Wen (溫偉耀博士)'s daughter shortly before reading the above devotional entry. If the cross that God designed for Wen by divine love consisted of working with his mentally retarded daughter, a good part of my cross at the moment would possibly be being mom's legal guardian. The charge is -- go forth to the day's cross with the holy and submissive spirit that is fitting for a follower of the Crucified.
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