Each of us, if we are honest with ourselves, have or are traveling the road to Jerusalem where we will face a cross. If the Christian life is a life of glory as some of our brethren would have us to believe that Is there perfect peace, security, plenty of goodness and ample prosperity, then the cross has no meaning for us.
But if our road is like that man who lost is family, then our road is the road of the cross. The road of the cross is the road that can see our families, our homes, our comfort ,our security, our pleasure, our health all go down the drain in a blink of an eye. No one has ever said that it was going to be easy following Christ on the raod of life. The 12 were promised nothing but blood and sweat and tears, and that's what you are promised too, my friends.
God did not promise our journey would be paved with a road of ease, of peace and goodness, but for many if their road is not paved with those kinds of things, they somehow believe that God has abandoned them, or this God they have believed in has been lying to them.
But the cross of Calvary is a example for us that God works in ways different than we can comprehend. Today is called Good Friday because out of the death, the pain, the anguish, the tears, the bitterness of the cross God brought life on that first Easter morning.
And God continues to work in that mysterious way. We want success, we want fame, we want glory, we want prosperity, but God says those things don't necessarily need to be there for life too be full and rewarding.
God says out of the brokenness of life, out of those events, and circumstances that remind us that we are not what we want to be, God can bring a measure of his grace, his peace, his power that was not there before.
Does a faith in God preclude accepting and acknowledging the weakness, the vulnerability , the brokenness, the humanity,the emotion of dealing with the pain of this world?
If being a Christian means that I have to be always strong, that I cannot share with others the pain, the hurts, the doubts, the weakness, the brokenness, the sinfulness of their life, that somehow being a Christian means, that I must he a superman, then I think we have the whole business turned up side
