The crosses we make!

(J.R. Miller)

"Father, if You are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from Me. Yet I want Your will to be done, not Mine." Luke 22:42

A cross is composed of two pieces of wood. The shorter piece represents your will - and the longer piece represents God's will. Lay the two pieces side by side - and there is no cross; but lay the shorter piece across the longer one - and you have a cross.

Just so, whenever our will falls across God's will - there is a cross in our life. We make a cross for ourselves . . .
  every time we do not accept Christ's way,
  every time we murmur at anything He sends,
  every time we will not do what He commands.

But when we quietly accept what He gives, when we yield in sweet acquiescence to His will, though it shatters our fairest hopes, when we let our will lie alongside His - there are no crosses in our life, and we have found the peace of Christ.

"My Father! If this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it - may Your will be done." Matthew 26:42

"I delight to do Your will, O my God!" Psalm 40:8