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**Luke 23:26** — *"As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and they put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus."*
Simon had no plan for this moment. He was walking in from the fields — ordinary work, ordinary morning. Then Roman hands reached out, and everything changed.
This is the posture of discipleship Luke quietly captures here: the cross finds us, not the other way around. Simon did not volunteer. He was *seized* — and yet he walked directly behind Jesus, step for step, on the road to Calvary.
There is a mercy hidden in this scene. The Lord did not carry His cross alone to the end, and He does not ask us to carry ours alone either.
Consider the ordinary morning you are walking through today — and where Christ may already be moving ahead of you, inviting you to follow closely behind.
Simon had no plan for this moment. He was walking in from the fields — ordinary work, ordinary morning. Then Roman hands reached out, and everything changed.
This is the posture of discipleship Luke quietly captures here: the cross finds us, not the other way around. Simon did not volunteer. He was *seized* — and yet he walked directly behind Jesus, step for step, on the road to Calvary.
There is a mercy hidden in this scene. The Lord did not carry His cross alone to the end, and He does not ask us to carry ours alone either.
Consider the ordinary morning you are walking through today — and where Christ may already be moving ahead of you, inviting you to follow closely behind.
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