Accept your cross, receive your crown

"But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."  (Galatians 6: 14)

Jesus Christ is the Way.  He offers us the way of the cross.  But this way leads ultimately to a crown.  We find Jesus daily in the crosses we are called upon to bear.  When we accept our cross, we embrace Jesus.  When we reject our cross, we reject Jesus.  Jesus embraced His cross and turned what history would have described as one out of many Roman executions into the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God.