Christ helps us carry our daily cross

A man walked across a desert and carried a cross together with Christ. There were two sets of tracks seen in the sand: one of the man and the other of the Lord Jesus. When the man turned round at nearly the end of his way, much to his surprise he could see only one set of tracks in the sand. He turned to the Lord: “Lord, when I started my way of following You, You promised to walk with me all the way. But now I can see that in the hardest moments of my life there was only one set of tracks in the sand. How could You leave me alone when I needed You most?”

And Jesus said: “I never left you alone, never. That one set of tracks you could see was left in the sand from the moments when I was carrying both you and your cross.” This example expresses a profound truth.

Every day we can call on Jesus, when worries and vanities overwhelm us and we lack the strength to do the will of God, when we have an urge either to do nothing or to immerse ourselves in a problem which produces another problem and consequently we lose the essence, when we do anything else but not what we are to do. Then we need to fall to our knees, look into the eyes of Christ on the cross and say: “Jesus, I trust in You. You will give me the strength to carry the cross of this duty which I loathe and try to avoid. Please, give me the strength; I have none.” And Jesus will. Sometimes in an extraordinary way. At other times secretly so that we do not even know that He has solved it. This is ‘Follow Me!’ in practice. ‘Follow Me in doing the will of God – doing the will of God and carrying your cross.’

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