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Even If i Walk Alone

Instructing and encouraging you to live your life as a disciple of Jesus

The Cross

Dying to Live

September 21, 2020 by Tim Sherfy

Disciples of Jesus know they must take up their cross daily. But do you understand what that means? No one survives the cross. Not even the physical body of Jesus. The cross is an unequivocal representation of death. To pick up our cross daily necessitates that we die each day. Every day we must completely surrender what we want to do. All our hopes, dreams and ambitions are dead to us. Every relationship is dead. The cross spares nothing.

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As you die to self, the cross strips everything away. We can hold on to nothing. It all goes. Every day. I’d wager few of us live like this. How many of us even pick up our cross? At best, we give it a casual glance before continuing with our plans. Very few of us are dying to live each day. If this is as true for you as it is for me, we are a long way from being able to call ourselves disciples of Jesus.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: commitment, Discipleship, Luke, The Cross

The Cross or Comfort

July 25, 2016 by Tim Sherfy

Sometimes I wish things weren’t so black and white. Take the title of this blog for instance. Will you choose the cross or comfort? Surely there’s an option ‘C’, right? We want the cross but we’d really rather have our share of comfort in this world as well. After all, what good is God if He can’t cut us a break every now and then? Of course we’d never say something like that out loud, but most of us aren’t shy about living as if that’s how we feel. But the way I read the Bible, there is no option ‘C’.

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There is no gray area in which we can revel. Jesus was pretty clear in His statements. We must choose the cross or comfort. We can’t have it both ways, and living in the middle is the same as rejecting Him (Revelation 3:16).

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: commitment, Discipleship, mission, priorities, sacrifice, The Cross

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