In order to take up the cross, deny self and follow Christ– do we need to know what self is? I think if we didn’t know what self is, and who we are, then we would leave behind precious truth, and stories that have meaning and power to help and heal those that we cross paths with – we are not held by this wounded ‘old self’, but through looking at what self is, and the woundedness therein, we are being healed and brought into the ‘new self’ – the new creation, in Christ – this means to deny the old sinful self, and instead walk in the healed new self.
The self that takes up the cross of Jesus is one that is in the process of being healed – on the journey to real freedom.
This freedom connects and identifies with the the Holy Spirit as all that it is comes into line with life, being fully alive in the resurrection of the cross.
Matthew 16:24-28
Then Jesus spoke to his disciples. He said, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must say no to himself. He must pick up his cross and follow me. If he wants to save his life, he will lose it. But if he loses his life for me, he will find it. "What good is it if someone gains the whole world but loses his soul? Or what can anyone trade for his soul?
There is no good in forfeiting the human soul, for it has holds treasure to the person that walks the journey of healing. Losing the old self, means finding life in Christ, in his death and resurrection – which means we find life in suffering as we share in the suffering of Christ – this is crazy, but it doesn’t make sense to the human mind that processes all things on earth, but instead to the human spirit that is in line to the Spirit of God that processes and identifies with the humanity of Christ, here on earth as it is in heaven.
The self that takes up the cross of Jesus is one that is in the process of being healed – on the journey to real freedom.
This freedom connects and identifies with the the Holy Spirit as all that it is comes into line with life, being fully alive in the resurrection of the cross.
Matthew 16:24-28
Then Jesus spoke to his disciples. He said, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must say no to himself. He must pick up his cross and follow me. If he wants to save his life, he will lose it. But if he loses his life for me, he will find it. "What good is it if someone gains the whole world but loses his soul? Or what can anyone trade for his soul?
There is no good in forfeiting the human soul, for it has holds treasure to the person that walks the journey of healing. Losing the old self, means finding life in Christ, in his death and resurrection – which means we find life in suffering as we share in the suffering of Christ – this is crazy, but it doesn’t make sense to the human mind that processes all things on earth, but instead to the human spirit that is in line to the Spirit of God that processes and identifies with the humanity of Christ, here on earth as it is in heaven.
