God leads us to scrutinize our hearts and see to what extent in our life we are really praising God or simply kneeling religiously.
Matthew 27:32 “As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene whose name was Simon; They forced him to carry the cross.”
Simon was simply there watching the scene, he was not going to help Christ with the cross, but they forced him to help him, that is, he reluctantly went to grab the cross. Reluctantly he obeyed what was one of the greatest privileges in history.
Obeying God is one of the great privileges we have, but if in our hearts we are being forced, and we do not understand what it really is to serve God and his work, we are being like Simon of Cyrene.
Ana Méndez Ferrell