Article December 19, 1983 Issue

Take up the cross! Must I?

BERNICE HOLLY HIGGINS

What does it mean to take up the cross? It means following Christ Jesus by loving God with all your heart and mind. It means striving to express the divine nature with which man, God's idea, is endowed. To express unselfed love is to take up the cross.

The basis of life is the fundamental, spiritual fact that Love is the source of all being and action. Man loves because God is Love, and man reflects God. As we understand our true nature to be this Godlike man, we learn to watch what we say, think, and do. A deep, inner yearning to know and express God through unselfed love helps us, step by step, to surrender materiality, which would clog progress.

Through self-knowledge we can know ourselves as in truth the radiant expression of Love. What a joy it is to see and experience God's love lived! Mrs. Eddy states in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, "We must resolve to take up the cross, and go forth with honest hearts to work and watch for wisdom, Truth, and Love." Science and Health, p. 15.

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