V - Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross

Scripture does not tell us that anything was offered to Jesus on his weary way to Calvary as it would be for most, when they had fallen from weakness and exhaustion. No, Jesus must rise and pursue his way. He must be goaded on. He cannot become inanimate and unconscious as people are when they fall. Therefore He must push on, therefore He must, wearied and worn still walk on, but He may have someone to help him with the weight of the Cross. Consider we are helping Jesus bear his Cross and that we should be as deserters to let it go, to give him as it were the weight or have to be forced like Simon was to carry it.

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