How to Follow Jesus Christ?
Statue of Jesus from Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, Koothuparamba, Kannur, Kerala Christ gives us a simple formula: “Follow me with your cross.” (Matthew 16:24-26) What was the cross in the life of Jesus? It was His way of redeeming the world. The cross is for us a symbol of redemption and therefore a sign of true love, as it shows us how much God loves us that he sent His only begotten son to die for our sins. For Jesus, the cross was doubly painful as an instrument of torture. This Roman tool for execution is designed to give a painful slow death to its victims, the criminals and enemies of the state. However, Jesus was also bearing the sins of mankind. Being a sinless man, an innocent man, he suffered much more than a criminal who would be sent to the cross for death. For Jesus, the sins of mankind weighed on his shoulders with many times the weight of the wooden cross. Thus, the True Cross of Christ becomes a divine tool of redemption. Although painful, Jesus endured the pa...