"Jesus said, if you want to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways,
take up your cross and FOLLOW ME!"
What does it mean to FOLLOW ME? Do you have to give up thinking everything is about you?
Do you have to pay a price to follow rather than lead? Bottom line, is it required that there be less of you and more of the one you follow? Well here is the "Good News" of the One Truth Today. Jesus Christ the Lord God has said that He can Save you and give you Eternal Life if you take up your cross and FOLLOW ME! Have you turned from your selfish ways and responded to the Lord? Are you following in the footsteps of Jesus or are you pretending? Have you considered the cost of taking up the cross of the Lord? Is life still all about you or have you learned to deny your flesh and become a new spiritual person that Knows, Loves and Fears the Lord God!
If you are going to believe in and follow Jesus you are going to have to deny your self and your selfish interests. You have to put your sights upon the Lord and walk in a straight path toward Him and become more like Him every day. Lose sight of yourself and look more carefully at the Lord. Focus on the Cross of the Lord and what it cost God to Save you. If you want eternal life, with perfection in Heaven, there is only one way that you can achieve it. You will have to become a follower of Jesus Christ and take up your cross. You will have to deny your flesh in your temporary life here on earth to become a child of the Lord. How are you doing?
It is human nature to be selfish and believe that everything is all about us. When you realize that everything is not all about you and that it is all about the Lord, then you have hope. Now you can focus on the most important thing in your life, your relationship with Jesus. It takes an act of faith to give our entire life over to the Lord. As this scripture relates, if you want to follow Jesus Christ then you must turn from yourself and your selfish ways, take up your cross and FOLLOW ME! The Lord is not asking you to do something He was unwilling to do. He laid His life down for us and now He expects us to lay our lives down for Him. The best part is we do not lose anything, in fact we gain eternal life, peace and happiness. We gain everything by giving up everything. The Lord is calling everyone, can you hear Him saying FOLLOW ME!
