Journey with Jesus – Two Decisions, One Life, Pick Up Your Cross and Put Down Everything That Is Holding You Back

Journey with Jesus – Two Decisions, One Life — Pick Up Your Cross 

and Put Down Everything That Is Holding You Back

In this clear-eyed and decisively challenging message, you'll be 

confronted with the most fundamental and unavoidable binary decision 

of the Christian life — what are you going to pick up and what are 

you going to put down? Jesus was never unclear, never vague, and 

never diplomatic about what following Him fully required. Pick up 

your cross — the weight of a life fully surrendered to His purposes, 

His calling, and His will. And put down everything that competes with 

it — the sin that entangles, the comfort that numbs, the compromise 

that quietly erodes, and the version of life that looks good from 

the outside but keeps you from the inside of everything God has for 

you. Two decisions. One life. And the clarity has always been there.

This episode encourages you to stop living in the grey area between 

fully picking up your cross and fully putting down what needs to go 

and make the clear, deliberate, and defining decision that Jesus has 

been patiently waiting for. When the cost of picking up the cross 

feels too high and the comfort of putting it back down feels too 

appealing, that's your signal that this is the exact moment the 

decision matters most. The life Jesus has called you to is on the 

other side of two clear choices — pick it up, put it down, and 

never look back.

No matter how long you have been living somewhere between the two 

decisions or how many times you have picked it up and put it back 

down right now, take comfort in this truth: Jesus did not make the 

call to follow Him complicated — He made it clear. And clear calls 

deserve clear responses.

🎧 Listen now and be challenged to make the two clearest and most 

defining decisions of your faith — pick up what God is calling you 

to carry and put down everything that has been keeping you from 

carrying it.

"Then he said to them all: 'Whoever wants to be my disciple must 

deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.'" 

— Luke 9:23 (NIV)

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