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Be Willing for the Crucifixion - Because it is the Author of LIFE - Part II

Tip! THE possibilities of prayer are gauged by faith in God's ability to do. Faith is the one prime condition by which God works.

Your cross and my cross will vary according to the disposition, and the calling of our lives, so we don't have the same in that sense, but everyone will have one.

Why? Because in God's economy and purpose for us, He knows the pattern, the situation, the episode that will perfectly crucify our old flesh. So He says: "Will you voluntarily take it? You pick it up. You know what My cross did for Me. It was the place of My execution; it was the place where I died; now, you take yours. It will be the place of the execution of the creature that you are; it will slay you. I don't lay it upon you; I want you to voluntarily take it up, for then your identification with Me will be what I want—a voluntary love and surrender."

So, He will bring a cross to you; it may take different shapes and forms, but it is always a cross. I can't interpret your cross; nobody but you can. So when God brings it, don't be amazed, upset, and confused.

He says, "Take it up." For if you take up your cross; this decision, this consideration, this surrender; if you take that up into your life pattern and walk, you will have a crown over there. Because the sequel, the answer, to a cross is a crown; and there is no crown without a cross, because every cross, if borne, will take a crown.

"Hold that fast which thou hast..." What do we have? We have the Truth, which becomes a cross, which will slay every one of us. Hold fast to the Truth as to a treasure, lest something come along, and snatch it away. Hold fast the Word of Truth which is a cross; it will eventually spell a crown. Snatch your crown! For the crown is the answer to the Truth. Hold to your Truth; hold to your cross; lest in not holding it, the crown is affected.

What is the symbol of suffering? It is the cross.

Christ had His cross every day, and Calvary was the climax. "He was made perfect through suffering." Ready for supreme sacrifice, suffering had done the silent, sacred ministry. ". . . Who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross..." (Heb. 12:2). "... Our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." (2 Cor. 4:17) He has gone, but He left His cross. Every man has his own cross to bear, but the sequel is life and secret joy— the crown.

Your cross is your crown in disguise.

Prayer:

Please Father, May we interpret the cross, the crown, the Truth as You see it in us. In Jesus' name; Amen.