To take up our cross is to give oneself unconditionally and unreservedly to Jesus.

When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Jesus was all about the holiness of love for people as the power and purpose of God—recovering the glory of God.

So how do you want to be treated?

Thank you for being ever ready to pull back up to the shoreline of our lives and let us get on board.

This is the whole point of Jesus: to show us what it looks like when the Holy Spirit has complete domain in a humble human being.

The Word of God only comes to sons and daughters and we are—every single one of us—long before and well after we are ever anything else—a beloved son or a blessed daughter.

Caesar was playing checkers; God was playing chess.

Faith is having the audacity to risk everything on what you know to be the truth—the Word of God.

This is where God meets us. He meets us on the day after our faith dies.