Brothers and Sisters 😊
📖 In Luke chapter 14 today we see Jesus explaining to the crowds the cost of discipleship, and what is required to follow Him…
“If you are not willing to give up all, you cannot be my disciple” (vs 33).
Q. How many of us find it very easy to fall in love with the beautiful and abundant promises of God…(mercy, forgiveness, adoption, provision, favor, protection, identity, purpose, preservation, salvation, fullness of joy, etc), and yet very difficult to let go of our white-knuckle grip on the treasures of this world…(money, status, approval, pleasure, comfort, possessions, relationships, control, entertainment, etc)?
🙏 Heavenly Father please forgive me for so often pursuing the temporary over the eternal, and loving the idea of kingdom inheritance without fully loving the Lord & King 👑
Help us all to hold the fleeting things of this world loosely, and cling tightly to the cross of Christ.
🙏 Lord Jesus we praise you today for a further understanding about counting the cost of discipleship toward you – Please grant us all an abiding belief and ever-increasing faith to know that in all situations, and in all circumstances, and in all ways, YOU ARE ALWAYS WORTH IT, AND ALWAYS ENOUGH!…
✝️ Therefore our true and better reward is waiting for us in heaven, “Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted…For we will be repaid for all earthly loss at the resurrection of the just.”
Luke 14:11,14
Grace and Gratitude 