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Very thoughtful post. This Christian life of ours is no simple life, but it reaches towards what is good... for us and the world.
The Christian life reaches toward what is good--but too often I have forgotten what true goodness is. I mistakenly seek my own comfort or the comfort of the one's I love.
I'm about to teach this blog as a Bible study this morning. Here's hoping it goes well.
Good points, all. Perhaps the physical life -- the constant march toward death (even in growth) -- is an apt metaphor here. Taking up our crosses and dying to ourselves every day is painful.
Praise God for the promise of resurrection -- both physically and spiritually we will be lifted up.
I love that you used the phrase "taking up our crosses." In the verses I listed at least, the Greek word, hupsoo, for being exalted or prospered literally means "to lift up." Jesus uses the same word twice in John 3:14. Moses lifted up the snake in the same way that the Son of Man will be lifted up. Here the word that often means magnify or grow or prosper--takes on connotations of death and sacrifice.
The difference between taking up your cross and being lifted up on a cross might be something to think about. One is our choice, the other is God's.