Believer's Daily

Consider the things which require daily attention. Depending on members of your household and their ages, those daily’s can vary – general housekeeping, kitchen duty, laundry, to name a few. Thank goodness, it's a daily to rest nightly from all the daily’s.

 

Christ said those who will follow Him must take up their cross.  What do you find most loathsome, things you have no passion for, those tasks you just simply don’t want to do? Perhaps there is the concept of bearing one's cross – putting aside what we want, replacing it with what is needful. So it is with Godly disciplines; we struggle within to practice peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, humility and love, to mention only a few. Luke 9:23 says, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."  J. H. Newman sums it up nicely: "To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us." Distasteful or not, it is the Believer's daily – die to self, take up Christ, and follow.