When Jesus said, “take up your cross daily,” he was telling his followers to take up their electric chairs; to take up their lethal injections.  He’s calling them to a spiritual death.  A death to this world and to the sinful mindset of the old man.  Unless we die to this world and to our own sinful desires we cannot follow Christ.  So how are you dying daily?  How are you denying yourself the things of this world for the sake of Christ?  How are you carrying the cross?