MUST JESUS BEAR THE CROSS ALONE?

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"Must Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world go free?
No, there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me."

In regard to the answer to the question presented by the title of this song, someone said, "YES! HE did bear the cross alone!" (John 3:16). No one else was capable of dying for mankind, and we could not bear it for Him. 

However, a corresponding opposite answer is "No, He must not bear the cross alone." For we are privileged to "fill up in our own bodies the unfinished sufferings of Christ." (Col. 1:24) We have been chosen to participate in His sufferings, though nothing about our participation is capable of saving us from the Father's judgement. Only Christ was capable of doing this. (1st John 4:10)

Thus, the answer to the question presented by the title of this song is, unlike the answer to most questions, plural; both yes and no.

by William McDonald, PhD