This was actually Jesus’ initial temptation in the wilderness – to abandon the way.

It is a struggle.

We get weary..

But, like Jesus, and with Jesus, we travel on.

It leads home.

I must needs go home by the way of the cross;
there’s no other way but this.
I shall ne’er get sight of the Gates of Light
if the way of the cross I miss.

Refrain:
The way of the cross leads home.
The way of the cross leads home.
It is sweet to know, as I onward go,
the way of the cross leads home.

I must needs go home in the blood-sprinkled way,
the path that the Savior trod,
if I ever climb to the heights sublime,
where the soul is at home with God. [Refrain]

Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,
to walk in it nevermore;
for the Lord says, “Come,” and I seek my home
where He waits at the open door. [Refrain]

• Jessie Brown Pounds