If any man serve ME+,
let him follow ME+;
and where I+ , I+ am,
there shall also My+ servant be:
if any man serve ME+,
him will My+ FATHER honor.
John 12:26
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Is it hard to discover “where” The LORD JESUS actually is, in your life ?
HE+ is indeed there, waiting for you at the foot of His+ Cross.
Why does HE+ wait for you there ,
at that most uncomfortable place ?
HE+ waits for you to meet HIM+ there . . . so that HE+ help you join HIM+ on the Cross.
Yes, HE+ is our Resurrected SAVIOR+. Yes, HE+ brings us through to Victory over enemies within and without.
His+ Victory came only via the Cross where HE+ crucified His+ LIFE for our sake.
LIKEWISE,
our Victory comes
ONLY through the Cross,
where we die to our Self
for His+ Sake.
Remember: HE+ does NOT place us onto that Cross.
NO. It is what we freely choose ourselves. We freely choose to pick up our cross and die daily to ourselves . . .
BECAUSE
that is the ONLY WAY
to have Victory in JESUS.
HE+ stands waiting at the foot of the cross for each one of us to ENABLE us by His+ enabling Grace to join HIM+ on the Cross.
The LORD JESUS is ready and willing to help us put to death our Self-nature and all that we hold dear as our “identity”.
HE+ AWAITS OUR PERMISSION TO DO SO.
THAT is where you will find HIM+ when you are “dry”, “dull of spirit”, and floundering. When your life has lost its zest , lost its color, and lost its liveliness, then you have moved away from the Foot of the Cross.
HE+ hasn’t moved; you have.
At the Foot of the Cross HE+ is standing,
waiting for you
to be willing to embrace
death to the Self.
That is when you will discover the RESURRECTION POWER of CHRIST JESUS . . . for Resurrection comes only after death.
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Let Us Pray:
LORD JESUS, I have avoided coming to meet you at that cross . I have not wanted to die to WHAT I WANT. I wanted to live my life my way.
O LORD JESUS, I see I was wrong. Help me to embrace that cross and not be afraid that it will “kill me”.
I know that it will ONLY KILL my natural-man which blocks Your+ LIFE from flowing through me.
Today, O LORD JESUS, I bend the knee of my heart at the Foot of the Cross and yield my Self over to YOU+.
Fill me now with Your+ Life anew and keep me tethered to Your+ Cross, O LORD.
This I pray in Thy+ Holy Name, O CHRIST. Amen
Worthy is The LAMB+ that was slain !
