“As they led Him away, they seized Simon Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.  A large number of people followed Him, including women who mourned and wailed for Him.”      
Luke 23:26-27
 The beam of lumber weighed only thirty pounds.  Normally, a man who had earned a living as a carpenter would not find this too much of a load.  But Jesus’ muscular body had been ripped from whips.  He had suffered pain so great it sucked the breath from His lungs and left Him in physical shock.  He had lost much blood and was on the verge of unconsciousness from thirst.
Falling and bearing the beatings silently, somehow He got to His feet one more time.  It was as if something was driving Him to reach Golgotha.
Jesus drove Himself to His feet again and again because He had accepted the task that awaited Him at Golgotha.  Much more than the thirty pounds of rough-hewn lumber on His back, He carried the great need forced upon Him by all the selfish desires and actions that separate all of us from God.  His agony, exhaustion, and certain death were not payment for anything He had done wrong, but for what we have done wrong.
It is easy to weep when we see Jesus with the cross.  But those are tears He does not want.  He wants us to cry for our sins.  He wants us to ask forgiveness. 
This journey is called repentance as we daily turn from sin to the grace and calling of God.