You cannot make your own cross but unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. You do not choose your own cross but self-will would try to be your lord and master.
Your cross is prepared and appointed by divine love. Accept it cheerfully. You are to carry your cross without raising trivial objections. Do not be insolent, or trample it in vain glory, or fall under it in despair, or run away from it in fear. Take up your cross as a true follower of Jesus.
Jesus was a cross-bearer. He leads the way along the path of sorrow and you could not have a better guide. If he carried a cross, what nobler burden could you carry?
The cross is not made of feathers or covered with velvet... but the cross is not made of iron. It is a wooden cross and you can carry it because the Man of Sorrows knows its weight. Take up your cross and by the power of the Spirit of God you will soon be in love with it. Like Moses, you would not exchange the reproach of Christ for all the treasures of the world.
taken from Charles Spurgeon
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