Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
The 3rd Sunday of Lent, The Cross is the sigh of the Son of Man.
"Take up your Cross, my yoke is easy and my burden light! (Matthew 16:24)
"Take up your cross : hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent,
as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit.
I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours".
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self (all your wishes and precautions) to Christ.
But it is far easier than what we are trying to do instead: to remain what we call ‘ourselves’, to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be ‘good'.
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs.
Steps:
- Being born again;
- Putting on Christ;
- Christ being formed in us;
- To have the mind of Christ.
We, people can be drawn into Christ and be part of that wanderful present which The Young Prince of the Univers wants to offer to His Father : Himself and therefore us in Him (John 18:21) (C.S.Lewis).