Take upon you His cross

I'm studying Jacob 1:8 today. The footnotes are great. The third one leads to use 14:27, which leads to a bunch more. From them I learned that taking up His cross means denying myself of ungodliness. Taking upon me His cause and name. It means bearing the shame of the world and not worrying about what there think or say about Him or my believing in Him. It means believing in Christ and becoming like Him.