📖 “Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.’”
Luke 9:23
We often love the idea of being “the hands and feet of Jesus” — serving, loving, reaching out, bringing comfort. But those hands bore wounds. Those feet were pierced. They bled. They carried a cross. And that’s the part we often forget.
Salvation is a free gift — grace beyond measure, not earned, just received. But the invitation to follow Jesus… that costs us something.
It costs our pride.
It costs our comfort.
It costs our need to control.
It costs the death of our old self — crucified with Christ so that His life can be formed in us.
📖 “Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.’” — Luke 9:23 (NKJV)
To walk in His footsteps is to love when it hurts, to forgive when it’s unfair, to serve without applause, and to endure suffering with eternal hope. It means surrendering your wounds to the One whose wounds brought your healing.
🖼️ How this Image Completes this Devotion:
“Scarred to Save” mirrors this truth in visual form. The gold cracks running through the hands remind us that the beauty of redemption is not found in perfection but in the willingness to be pierced for love’s sake. The hands extended in grace, though wounded, still reach outward — a sacred invitation to do the same.
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