What Does It Look Like to Be a Cross Bearer?

[Dave M]

What Does It Look Like to Be a Cross Bearer? - Eternal Perspective Ministries

The cross-carrier is a servant. He doesn’t look for others to serve him or baby him; he goes out of his way to serve them.

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"This is something you do every day. So it’s a thousand or ten thousand daily sacrifices, a lifetime of little loving acts, which cumulatively become huge. It’s a man who loves his paralyzed wife for forty years by saying no to his sexual desires every day, and dumps her bag of urine three times a day, to the glory of Jesus."

It’s saying no to sleep to get up and pray and read the Word day after day, saying no to living in a mansion and owning a nicer car even though that might be fun but not as fun as giving to keep a child alive, of living more simply so that you have more to give, day after day. It’s doing the humble job that nobody applauds, but needs to be done, and which is seen sometimes by no one but the Audience of One.

 

[DieAmartyr]

What Does It Look Like to Be a Cross Bearer? - Eternal Perspective Ministries

The cross-carrier is a servant. He doesn’t look for others to serve him or baby him; he goes out of his way to serve them.

www.epm.org

"This is something you do every day. So it’s a thousand or ten thousand daily sacrifices, a lifetime of little loving acts, which cumulatively become huge. It’s a man who loves his paralyzed wife for forty years by saying no to his sexual desires every day, and dumps her bag of urine three times a day, to the glory of Jesus."

It’s saying no to sleep to get up and pray and read the Word day after day, saying no to living in a mansion and owning a nicer car even though that might be fun but not as fun as giving to keep a child alive, of living more simply so that you have more to give, day after day. It’s doing the humble job that nobody applauds, but needs to be done, and which is seen sometimes by no one but the Audience of One.

To be a cross bearer is to live a hard life, facing persecution and ridicule for believing in Jesus. It is openly admitting that you serve Christ no matter what, bowing before no one else but Jesus Christ ( take heed not to be fooled to bow for a crucifix with a man on it. This represents Anti-Christ as it depicts His death without resurrection. Jesus did not stay on the cross! He rose from the dead and LIVES! Crucifix with a man on it is a false idol ) It means being willing to die for your friends. ( Oh what a friend we have in Jesus!)

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13