CARRYING OUR CROSSES

 

CARRYING OUR CROSSES

You have CROSSES in life=

I do too=And Jesus

Had his own

VERY HEAVY CROSSES

We all have to

CARRY them=to the BEST

Of our abilities=no matter

HOW HEAVY

That they are

“Whoever does not

Carry his OWN CROSS

And come after me

CANNOT be my disciple”                                                                                      Luke 14:27

Do you ever wonder

If you are on

JESUS' list

Of his disciples?

Are you carrying the CROSSES

To the best

Of your ability?

Maybe you are=and I am=

Some of Jesus'

DISCIPLES too

These crosses

Are darn heavy

We stay ACTIVE

On Jesus' approved disciples

List=by CARRYING our crosses

“Carrying his OWN CROSS-

He went out to

The place of the skull

(Which in Aramaic

Is called Golgotha)”                                                                                           John 19:17

“His purpose

Was to create

In himself

One new humanity

Out of the two=

Thus making peace

And in one body

To reconcile both of them to God

THROUGH THE CROSS

By which he

Put to death

Their hostility”                                                                                                          Ephesians 2:16

“And having disarmed

The powers-

And authorities 

He has made a public spectacle

Out of them

Triumphing over them

BY THE CROSS”                                                                                              Colossians 2:15

We all have

MANY CROSSES

Those people in the

Senior LIVING CENTER=

They have many crosses

They are JESUS' DISCIPLES too=

Those people carrying

CHRONIC ILLNESSES-

They have worries=anxieties=

And CROSSES

They are

APPROVED DISCIPLES TOO

We are TRYING

To CARRY our crosses

To the best of 

Our ability

Jesus carried a HEAVY

WOODEN CROSS=and internally

A much heavier one

He kept walking

ALL THE WAY to Calgary

And did not turn back

KEEP walking and carrying

Your cross=you are HIS DISCIPLE TOO

“What Jesus did here

In Cana of Galilee

Was the first

Of the signs

Through which

He revealed his glory

And his DISCIPLES

Believed in him”                                                                                                   John 2:11

KEEP carrying YOUR CROSS=if it

Is not heavy

It is NOT A CROSS

In Jesus' name

Robert P. Wallman

11-5-19 and 2-21-22-2022 and 4-02-2023

Ps        INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. James McKarns