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follow the Crucified?"
Jesus
felt the pang and agony and pain of the Cross all His life. Do we
glory in the Cross or do we just talk about it and preach about
it? That foul-mouthed communist found some ground for his vitriolic
jibe when he said to a minister: "Christ died on His Cross, but
you ministers live on it."
God forgive us for living
so unidentified with the Cross that the world can see nothing of Him.
For it is only as we embrace our cross that the world can behold the Crucified.
Amy Carmichael asks, "Who would go so far as even to wish to be
Dead to the world and its
applause,
To all the customs, fashions,
laws,
Of those who hate the humbling
Cross?"
But how absolutely necessary
it is that I be just that --yes, all that--if I would be conformed
to His image.
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