5 Reasons To Embrace The Cross

The Cross is not your enemy, it’s actually your greatest friend.

Fear stops me from getting the best out of life. It can stop me from getting the best that God has in stock for me.

5 Reasons to embrace the cross:

1. We are reconciled to God through the cross. (Eph 2:14-16)
2.  It’s the criterion for discipleship (Luke 14: 25-27, Matt 10:37-39, Heb 5:7-9)
3.  There’s joy after the Cross. (Heb 12:2, Matt 27:39-40)
   God isn’t interested in my pain, but in my getting better. When I go through certain experiences (in bearing the cross, I ought to look beyond the pain and look forward to the joy set before me).
   The bitterness of the cross can’t be compared with the sweetness of the resurrection.
   If you deny the cross, you cannot tap into its power.
4.  It’s mandatory. You have to do it. (Matt 16:21-26, Acts 21:13-14, Phil 2:5-9; 3:15-21)
   You have to go thru process, there’s no skipping classes with God.
   Whatever you’re going thru, God has got exaltation in store for you.
5. Jesus overcame by the cross. If Jesus overcame by the cross, I can get my victory thru the cross too. God knows what you’re going thru & is telling you to trust Him completely to make a way for you.