Picking up the cross and following daily is a narrow path that requires ongoing permanent adherence to what God has said and what Jesus and the Holy Spirit and apostles and prophets teach and teachers should teach it too if they know it well enough. This kind of discipleship is more powerful than just reading scripture and transforms our lives of water into lives of wine. Here is where the tough choice to turn from sin and change our ways comes into effect. A pity many churches leave it out of the read and pray curriculum and ignore the fact it is the way to becoming a permanent child of God once the power of the Spirit takes effect. Why a matter of picking up a cross? Because the way has side-effects including persecution and even death at evil hands but it is worth it. What could be worth death? Soul salvation and knowing God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
