The Cross in Our Experience

The Lord Jesus said we must all bear the cross. In our experience it is borne both inwardly and outwardly. Inwardly we experience the putting to death of Jesus in our spirit. This works to kill our self-life. Outwardly the cross is the will of God realized in our circumstances. Everything in the circumstances of the believer's life is arranged by God to produce him into the image of Christ. Because what we need is a termination of the self and a bringing in of the life of Christ.

On the one hand we experience Christ inwardly as the Spirit which has the element of the death of Christ to operate in us putting to death the deeds of the body. On the other all the varied circumstances are aspects of the cross and, if we embrace them, work on us to allow the Lord to cross us out and gain us more completely.

Praise Him for the cross!

Thanks

I haven't posted for quite awhile due to my being very sick. But through the prayers of the saints and the Lord's mercy I am mostly recovered. Thank you all for the love, concern and your prayers.