Thursday after Ash Wednesday – 03rd March 2022 — Lk 9,22-25
Call for a Conscious Choice
People in Jesus’ day knew what it means to “take up” a cross. They saw scores of criminals bear the cross to the place where they were to be executed. They witnessed scores of crucifixions, on the side of the roads that lead in and out of the cities. The cross is always an instrument of death, not just an object to carry or bear. To “take up his cross” means the disciple is to die mentally and actively. He is to deny himself daily by discipline and control and by loving and caring, sacrificing and giving, helping and ministering. He is to have the mind of Christ, the mind of humbling himself to the point of death, being in him and fill his thoughts every day. It is a conscious choice that a follower makes knowing the consequences that are involved.
