A question was, "Just where is the cross lately?"

 

My musing answer, for the moment, is, "Hopefully, it is on our shoulders. I think we sometimes think the cross is a symbol or a decoration rather than something we are called to take up daily and bear — that it is always bearing, as did Jesus, the burdens of others. I suspect that if all Jesus followers would do that …. well, you can finish the sentence … "

 

So, I am going with this thought. If all the symbols came down and all the decorations disappeared, would the cross still be visible in America?

 

Would Jesus followers bear it into the streets of our cities? Into hospital rooms? Into jails and homeless shelters? Into homes and workplaces? Would it be visible in our selfless services?

 

In our willingness to suffer?

 

In our willingness to forgive?

 

In our love for people that Jesus loves?

 

The right to display the cross is not in the hands of any government or anyone outside of ourselves. the display of the cross in entirely on the shoulders of believers who decide to bear it upon their shoulders.

 

Are we taking up our crosses daily and going on display?

 

Just thinking … and praying…

 

And asking myself as well.