Prepared and Appointed

**"You have not the making of your own cross....

but your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love,

and you are cheerfully to accept it;  

you are to take up the cross as your chosen badge and burden,

and not to stand cavilling at it.  



This night Jesus bids you submit your shoulder to His easy yoke.  
Do not kick at it in petulance, or trample on it in vainglory, or fall under it in despair,

or run away from it in fear, but take it up like a true follower of Jesus.

Jesus was a cross-bearer; He leads the way in the path of sorrow.

Surely you could not desire a better guide!  And if He carries a cross,

what nobler burden would you desire?  

The Via Crucis is the way of safety; fear not to tread its thorny paths...

remember that it will soon be followed by the crown,
and the thought of the coming weight of glory will greatly lighten
the present heaviness of trouble."

Many Blessings, Camille

**Quoted from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening
February 23rd evening reading