What's Your Cross?

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." Mark 8:34 NIV

Did you know you have a cross, or two or three? We all have at least one. It could be self-glory. It could be fear of ridicule. It could be the ambition to get rich.

Frank Laubach writes about this in his book, You Are My Friends. He writes, "The test of a soldier is not how well he can talk when there is no danger. He is a true soldier who faces peril and losses and defeat and pain without losing his nerve. This is also the test of a genuine follower of Christ."

Are you ready to deny yourself? Are you ready to identify which cross is yours, then take it up for carrying? And will you follow Jesus Christ no matter where He takes you?

These are all questions that we, the soldiers in God's army, need to be prepared to answer.