Over the years there has been millions of fellow gamers who have taken on Link’s mission to free Hyrule from Ganon’s evil grasp… but even though countless others have played and beaten the game successfully, I haven’t experienced victory in my own play-through of the game until I’ve personally picked up a controller and taken on the challenges of the game for myself. Simply watching others finish their story in an online video or even beside me on the couch is not a replacement for taking up my own sword and carrying my version of Link across the finish line… my save file is my personal story to finish.

While it is absolutely true that Christ carried the cross that sets us free from sin and offers us right-standing with the Father, He also made it clear that we each have our own daily cross to carry as well… not to earn victory ourselves, but to participate in the victory He purchased. He permanently defeated the enemy of our souls by His death and resurrection, but believing in His victory is only part of the mission… we must also take up our own cross each day and follow in His footsteps to truly experience this abundant life ourselves. Let’s look at our daily cross a bit differently today… not as a burden to carry, but as our means of participating in the story that He finished, but we must still choose to play.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” Matthew 16:24-25

And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. Matthew 10:38-39

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