If You Want More Life, First Embrace Death
The way of the cross is not an easy way. It is the way of dying that leads to life and greatest fruitfulness. When I came to know Christ I understood the cost but had no idea what it would mean for me. How God takes those who seek to follow Him and a time comes when he asks them to lay down everything that they hold most dear to their hearts so that they would find that He alone is the true treasure worth seeking. I just didn’t know. I didn’t know how hard this path would be. But I was willing to count the cost, whatever it may be, even if it cost me my life. But, can I be honest and say, there have been times I’ve struggled with resenting the hardness of this? There are times that I have struggled to keep my heart in the place of full surrender. Maybe outwardly I was obeying but inwardly sometimes I have been angry, depressed, confused. And the prosperity gospel of the Western world that says if you follow Jesus he will give you ever