You’ll be uber cool using this phrase …

I know you’ve heard it.

It’s the latest darling phrase among the trendy that’s being peppered into our “leader speak.” When a leader wants to emphasize effort and sound cool at the same time, he’ll exhort you to “lean into it.”

From a practical standpoint, it makes sense. After all, if you really need to make something move, you tend to lean into it and exert real effort.

Not much gives way until you lean into it.

I wonder if Jesus was thinking this when He said, ” … If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it,” Matthew 16:24.

How do you “take up” a cross?

Can you do it sitting down?

Can you take up your cross and carry it in an upright, strolling position?

Can you take up a cross and carry it with swagger?

Or, if you’re going to really take up your cross and bear it, don’t you have to lean into it?

What are you leaning into?

Scotty