Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share April 5th Morning
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
April 5th Morning
“On Him they laid the cross, that He might bear it after Jesus.” — Luke 23:26
We see in Simon’s carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer. But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon’s, it is not our cross, but…
Christ’s cross which we carry. When
you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of
cruel mockings upon you, then remember it is not your cross, it is Christ’s
cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus!
You carry the cross after Him. You have blessed company; your path is
marked with the footprints of your Lord. The mark of His blood-red
shoulder is upon that heavy burden. ‘Tis His cross, and He goes before
you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Take up your cross daily, and
follow Him.
Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. It is the
opinion of some that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the
whole of it. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier
part, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter
end. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the
cross, Christ bore the heavier end.
And remember, though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it
gave him lasting honour. Even so the cross we carry is only for a little
while at most, and then we shall receive the crown, the glory. Surely we
should love the cross, and, instead of shrinking from it, count it very dear,
when it works out for us “a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory.”
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
View all episodes
By ClassicDevotionals.com
4.8
279279 ratings
“On Him they laid the cross, that He might bear it after Jesus.” — Luke 23:26
We see in Simon’s carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer. But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon’s, it is not our cross, but…
Christ’s cross which we carry. When
you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of
cruel mockings upon you, then remember it is not your cross, it is Christ’s
cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus!
You carry the cross after Him. You have blessed company; your path is
marked with the footprints of your Lord. The mark of His blood-red
shoulder is upon that heavy burden. ‘Tis His cross, and He goes before
you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Take up your cross daily, and
follow Him.
Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. It is the
opinion of some that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the
whole of it. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier
part, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter
end. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the
cross, Christ bore the heavier end.
And remember, though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it
gave him lasting honour. Even so the cross we carry is only for a little
while at most, and then we shall receive the crown, the glory. Surely we
should love the cross, and, instead of shrinking from it, count it very dear,
when it works out for us “a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory.”
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
More shows like Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon
View all
Renewing Your Mind
5,102 Listeners
Messages by Desiring God
1,635 Listeners
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
8,462 Listeners
The World and Everything In It
7,011 Listeners
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
1,315 Listeners
Ask Pastor John
3,916 Listeners
5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols
1,697 Listeners
Light + Truth
1,427 Listeners
Wretched Radio with Todd Friel
3,122 Listeners
Solid Joys Daily Devotional
2,138 Listeners
Simply Put
1,384 Listeners
Ask Ligonier
436 Listeners
Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford
444 Listeners
Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson
1,475 Listeners
Spurgeon's Sermons
64 Listeners