Cross My Heart

We are in a life-long process of deprogramming our souls, exposed to a sinful and bitter world. If we let our environment, it can rob us from true living. We can’t avoid the fact that our human experiences have had great influence on what has formed our perceptive. By way of perspective, God often reaches out to guide us into His by showing us Himself on a cross. Christ didn’t let the cross define him here, but He knew He had to hang on it anyway. He knew that it was the path given by God to redeem every human soul, for He knew what was beyond it. He is teaching His children that crosses that aren’t picked up will only drag us down until we go back for them.

Allowing a person, family, or community not to pick up their crosses is not doing anyone a favor. God is like the loving Father that insists that when His child wrecked the car, either by their fault or not, has to drive it home. They have to drive home if they are ever going to learn what it means to get behind the wheel again. Spiritually, if we can’t confront what is in front of us, there is no way around it.

God, as a loving Father has a way of getting our attention by stopping a walk with us, in a way, and standing next to the cross that we have tried to pass. He knows His child isn’t going anywhere, of spiritual significance, if they don’t go back and pick it up. Remember He said “My burden is light.” Maybe part of what He meant was that “if you think it is heavy now with me, wait until you try it on your own.” It sometimes takes a lifetime, if we are lucky, to get to the point that we allow God’s perspective of crosses to become the way to our heart. It is the picking them up and climbing on them in this world, that not only brings hope of life in the next, but freedom to live with them in the here and now.

The cross if carried is freedom with God. The cross if left at the side of the road can kill you and others that follow.