It can never be true that we are crucified to the world unless the heart is in constant communion with the cross of Christ. The cross comes in, in everything, as a matter of daily experience. How is one to pass into the old age of a Christian? How find one’s self laid aside, no longer with any energy? Surely only by the cross. ‘How can one meet difficulties with a word, and be kept in perfect quietness? Only by the cross. How can we keep under such flesh as ours? Does the “old man “ever get to be better? Not a bit! but you must learn to be able to carry the cross, saying of everything that is evil, “I have nothing to do with that, because my Lord was crucified on account of it.”
G. V. W.