Hard to Do

Christ’s call to us
each one of us, to lay down our selves
our former lives cast off
to take up his cross,
to put on Christ
and be his self in the world
give up your cares
follow the way
Hard to do
but we believe in the riches
the place prepared for us

September 13, 2008
Alive Now devotional for September 13, 2008
“The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says, “Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you.... Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked—the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.” Both harder and easier than what we are all trying to do.” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity