Until there’s a release and a turning from your way, there is no going God’s way. Press the ear to the seashell, and hear it: If the way you’re walking doesn’t have crosses, afflictions, persecutions, and self-denial, you’re not on Christ’s way. His ways are waves, and ours the shore, always resisting. Our way is self-formed, God’s way is cruciform; our way is wide and self-comforting, His way is narrow and self-denying; and our way rarely crosses His, as His way always means a carrying of a cross.
