Wednesday, November 7th
Great crowds accompanied Jesus on His way and He turned and spoke to them, "…. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple"
Luke 14:26

The cross I carry until the end of time is the pain and suffering of the world. Once only I died to redeem and save the world corrupted by the mortifying power of sin. And all who look for liberation from sin's reward and power find it in Me however often they need to look for it. As each turns from the unrewarding service of the natural self, so is he found by My redeeming love, led in the way by the light of Our Holy Spirit and rewarded at the end by that which his soul seeks.

But there is a sharing of the total suffering which each committed joyful soul is offered, each unique according to the pattern of the whole. As each identifies his part and place within that whole and lives it out in faith and loving trust so does he become a living part of the whole redeemed, sanctified body which is My risen life. So does he share the joy of My redeeming work:; and the whole great offering the Father will receive when time shall end, and all are gathered in who chose the way of life.