The Way of the Cross - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

I appoint unto you, as My Father has appointed unto Me, a kingdom.
Luke 22:29

The Way of the Cross
How we shrink from this hardship and the sacrifice that witnessing for Christ involves! We labor to save our own lives often, for we so little appreciate the love of Christ that made Him die for us; and it is only as that love of His constrains us that we shall do any other; but when that love takes full possession, we sell the garment and buy the sword, and go forth to witness for our Lord regardless of the consequences to ourselves. In this there is compensation; the compensation of the Lord's approval in this present time; and in the future there is glory with Him, for if we suffer with Him we shall also reign with Him (2 Tim. 2).

"I appoint unto you a kingdom," said the Lord to His disciples, who afterwards sealed their testimony for Him with their blood, these true martyrs of our Lord. May we be like them through His grace. Let us in our meditation put ourselves in thought among that company of men in that upper room, and listen to these wonderful sayings of our Lord, spoken with such quietness, such tenderness, until their full meaning fills our souls.

Then let us follow Him as the Holy Spirit here shows Him to us, going forth to the Garden, then to the cross, and down into the grave, then rising in the triumph of His victory over death, and ascending at last to His Father's throne; then like those disciples who saw Him go up, we shall worship Him, and be filled with great joy, and be continually praising and blessing God. Amen.

J. T. Mawson
Nought can stay our steady progress,More than conquerors we shall be,If our eye, whate'er the danger,Looks to Thee, and none but Thee.

William Williams