A Call to Die

I don't know if I mentioned this already or not, but I am doing a daily devotion called "A Call to Die". It is pretty intense - which I like - with the challenges to die to my selfish desires and the way I live life in general. One of the things I have been reading about lately is about how often we minimize the purpose of the cross in our daily lives. Like there is some way to get deeper spiritually than the cross. I had to think about that for awhile because I get that way, where I think I need to grow deeper in my walk with cross than understanding what Jesus did on the cross. I still struggle to grasp the love and depth of sacrifice that Jesus has shown through His death on the cross. He didn't want to die! He had given up equality with God to live amongst us and then to take every sin ever committed and every sin to ever be committed in the future on Himself and died once for them all!We all have a choice to make, are we going to believe that He did that and accept Him as our Lord and Master. I have made that decision and yet I struggle daily to honor what He did on the cross. I still mess up regularly. I wish that I had the book with me right now so I could give you this quote word for word, but Charles Spurgeon said, "If you sin, sin boldly. Every time you sin, you are saying that sin is worth more to you than the cross of Jesus Christ." Ouch! I make so many choices each day - how I speak to people, the thoughts I entertain, the little white lies, the bad attitude, the selfishness, and the list goes on. I desire to think about Christ and Him crucified and have that be my perspective for each daily choice. I want to live a life filled with gratitude and thanksgiving, full of love and compassion. I want to rejoice when God rejoices and I want to weep when God weeps. To live with such passion and zeal and remembrance for why I am allowed to live eternally with God!