Count The Cost

Luke 14:26-35

Alot of people have come to Christ without counting the cost first.They start out well,but it is only a matter of time before they walk away from God.God never promised us that the Christian walk would be an easy walk or that He wouldn't ask us to do difficult things.A Christian must not love anything on this earth,including themself,more than Christ.The time may come when God will ask a Christian to walk away from someone or something,or lay down their life.If we,as Christians,love that person,thing,and even life itself more than God,we won't be able to give it up,if and when He asks.
Though not counting the cost,doesn't just affect the Christian's relationship with God,but also other people's relationships to God.People will be watching you,once they realize you are a Christian.If they see you fall away from Christ,when God asks of you more than you want to give,then they may fall away too,be disappointed in you,or worse never come to Christ in the first place.
What so many fail to realize is that when you accept Christ,you're giving everything to Him for Him to use and do with as He sees fit.Surrender to Christ involves sacrifice,sacrifice of ourselves,our things,and at times even people in our lives.It comes at a cost and we must be willing at all times to pay that cost,no matter how high the cost might be.In the end we will receive our great reward,if we remain faithful to Him.

"I beseech you therefore,brethren,by the mercies of God,that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,holy acceptable to God,which is your reasonable service." Rom.12:1
"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,whom you have from God,and you are not your own?For you were bought at a price;therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit,which are God's." 1 Cor.6:19-20
"And they over came him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony,and they did not love their lives to the death." Rev.12:11