The Radical Cross: Living the Passion of Christ by A. W. Tozer & Ravi Zacharias

Author:A. W. Tozer & Ravi Zacharias [Tozer, A. W. & Zacharias, Ravi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Books & Bibles, Christian Living, Ministry & Evangelism, Discipleship, Theology, Salvation Theory, Religion & Spirituality, Soteriology, Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9781600662829
Google: _3IYAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00GPBHP06
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Goodreads: 17555154
Publisher: Wingspread
Published: 2009-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

He makes some with gold and precious stones which dazzle the spectators and excite the envy of the public but which crucify no less than the crosses which are more despised.

Christians who are put in high places, Christians who are entrusted with wealth and influence, know something about the kind of cross that may seem dazzling to spectators and excites the envy of the public—but if they know how to take it, it crucifies them no less than the others.

It seems that He makes our crosses of all the things we like the best so that when they turn to bitterness we are able to learn the true measure of eternal values.

It appears, also, that it often pleases God to join physical weakness to this servitude of the Spirit.

“Nothing is more useful than these two crosses together,” the quote from the old saint continues. “They crucify a man from head to foot.”

I confess that when I read that it came like a shock to my soul, realizing anew that Jesus Christ was crucified from head to foot! When they nailed Him there, He was crucified in every part of His body and there was no part of His holy nature that did not suffer the full intensity of those pains on the cross.

The children of God must be ready for everything the cross brings or we will surely fail the test! It is God’s desire to so deal with us about all of the things that the world admires and praises that we will see them in their true light. He will treat us without pity because He desires to raise us without measure—just as He did with His own Son on the cross!

The Apostle Paul gave us this wonderful assessment of the will of God concerning the person and the earthly work of Jesus Christ: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus”:

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

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