The call to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus can feel overwhelming in a world fixated on gain and self-preservation. But in these three powerful steps lies the path to freedom, grace, and life. Tonight, meditate on what it means to turn toward Him, embrace His ways, and walk in His footsteps daily. - Shawn McEvoy

YOUR NIGHTLY PRAYER

Lord, Your ways provide a challenge and a handicap for us in our materialistic modern world, where we have so much to lose. But that’s exactly why, immediately upon telling us how to come after you, you ask what it would profit a person to gain the whole world but lose his or her soul (Mark 8:36). But those who have dared to walk in your way bear witness to having known the light of freedom and grace, of being loosed from the shackles of fear and loss in this world. Though you demand, we take up our cross, and you also assure us the burden is light. Though you move me towards completion and perfection every day, I know I will not attain it until I see you face-to-face. Until then, thank you for your forgiveness and the chance to always begin again by denying, standing, and walking.
In your precious name, amen.

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