These days we hear so much talk on our identification with the resurrection of Christ. We say, Lets move ahead. The cross is not the place to stay. We are now identified with His resurrection. We have to stay at the Throne and not at the grave. It is all true. But how have we forgotten that we have to always bear about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. Without a dying there is no resurrection. Without surrender there can be no faith. It is only when we let go that we let God. Dying we live and losing we gain. If we are so full of ourselves, how can we allow God to fill us with His life? Yes, it still hold true – you have to carry your cross and bear the sufferings of Christ for His life to radiate through you. Let us never remove the cross from our Christianity for that is where all that is ugly about us is taken away so that in the resurrection all that is beautiful in Christ may be ours.