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What is picking up your cross to you?
[SUP]24[/SUP]Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. [SUP]25[/SUP]For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.[SUP][SUP][1]
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Jesus was constantly pointing to the way of salvation and Paul explains it further.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection [/SUP][/SUP]
Jesus was constantly pointing to the way of salvation and Paul explains it further.
Romans 6:4-5
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20