Losing Interest in the power of the World - Part 2

Last night I was allowed by a dear friend to preach for the church where he ministers. I challenged the church as God has challenged me in the past month to live the Gospel. There are many aspects of our lives that this concept touches, but in what God laid on my heart last night to teach about I used a quote from Mere Discipleship, a challenging book on my book list.
Lee C. Camp writes, "Christians must realize that walking in the way of the cross may, indeed, lead to a cross."
I began to think about this. Are Christians walking the way of the cross? Am I walking the way of the cross? And if the answer is no, then what is at least one implication if this is not true of Christians and myself? (I submit that there very well may be many implications if Christians are not walking the way of the cross.)
The one implication that strikes me to the point of repentance comes from how Believers get to respond to the slain Lamb in heaven. Believers get to sing along with the rest of the new creation, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain!
If we are not walking the way of the cross, which is the same path the Lamb walked, then we may be saying, not verbally, that the way of the Lamb is not worthy of our footprints. We are dramatizing it by the way we live. (Understand here that I know there is a drastic difference in what the Lamb accomplished on the path. In no way do we become savior(s). Rather we become like, similar to, the Savior.)
If we are walking in such a way that says the way of the Savior is not worthy to trod down, then how are we going to be able to stand with the heavenly host proclaiming, Worthy is the Lamb! Worthy is the one who died on a cross!
Our Savior is worthy. His path is worthy! Let us, Christians, rise together to the challenge to live the gospel. Our Savior has asked us to walk the path. The amazing thing is that when we walk the path of the Savior we become like him. Then in becoming like him we begin to accomplish what he has given us the responsibility to accomplish. When we live the Gospel, Believers, we establish the Kingdom of God. The way of the cross, the way of the Lamb, Jesus the Christ, is the power of God used by God through obedient children to continue to establish his kingdom on this earth.
I challenge you, walk the worthy path of the cross (it will not be easy), so we can stand together in that new day and sing, Worthy is the Lamb, that was slain. Holy, Holy is He!