Come Daily! “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.”
Luke 9:23
Andrew Murray wrote, “Taking up the cross and following Jesus is nothing less than living every day with our own lives and wills given up to death. The crucified Christ and the crucified Christian belong to each other. The Christian glories in the Cross because it makes him a partner in a death and victory that has already been accomplished and in which the deliverance from the powers of the flesh and of the world has been secured.” I believe that deserves an AMEN!
We awake each morning with a decision to make before we ever jump out of bed or step out the door. What will we choose to do with our lives and wills? We have an opportunity to lay our lives and will on the altar each morning and echo the words of the Lord Jesus, “Not what I will, but what thou wilt” (Mark 14:32-35). When we die to self, we will live powerfully, victoriously and vicariously in and through Christ Jesus because His death was our death and His resurrection was our resurrection. The Christian is a new creature (creation) in Christ Jesus and thus can live powerfully having victory over sin (Please see Romans 6:1-14). We need to begin each day with this prayer, O Father I desire to die to self and be filled with the Holy Spirit. We need to have a funeral each morning spiritually speaking. Please don’t miss the word “daily” in our verse.
There is freedom in the crucified life. There is power in the crucified life. There is purpose in the crucified life. God will be found in the crucified life. When we look not at the ways of the world as something we miss but when we see them for what they truly are (see I John 2:15-17) we will readily, excitedly and daily come to the Lord each morning and say, “Not what I will, but what thou wilt.”
Luke 9:23
Andrew Murray wrote, “Taking up the cross and following Jesus is nothing less than living every day with our own lives and wills given up to death. The crucified Christ and the crucified Christian belong to each other. The Christian glories in the Cross because it makes him a partner in a death and victory that has already been accomplished and in which the deliverance from the powers of the flesh and of the world has been secured.” I believe that deserves an AMEN!
We awake each morning with a decision to make before we ever jump out of bed or step out the door. What will we choose to do with our lives and wills? We have an opportunity to lay our lives and will on the altar each morning and echo the words of the Lord Jesus, “Not what I will, but what thou wilt” (Mark 14:32-35). When we die to self, we will live powerfully, victoriously and vicariously in and through Christ Jesus because His death was our death and His resurrection was our resurrection. The Christian is a new creature (creation) in Christ Jesus and thus can live powerfully having victory over sin (Please see Romans 6:1-14). We need to begin each day with this prayer, O Father I desire to die to self and be filled with the Holy Spirit. We need to have a funeral each morning spiritually speaking. Please don’t miss the word “daily” in our verse.
There is freedom in the crucified life. There is power in the crucified life. There is purpose in the crucified life. God will be found in the crucified life. When we look not at the ways of the world as something we miss but when we see them for what they truly are (see I John 2:15-17) we will readily, excitedly and daily come to the Lord each morning and say, “Not what I will, but what thou wilt.”
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