About counting the cost…
Luke 14:28 "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down
and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29For if he lays the
foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30saying,
`This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.' (NIV)
All the seconds of your life are supported by the power of God. To make your life
blossom, Christ came to earth and gave His life so your life can extend into the eternal
beauty of Heaven. When you believe or think you are alone in this life, Christ is with
you. Christ is with you even when you do not sense Him being there. The guiding hand of
Christ is upon you each second and He will guide you if you turn your will towards Him.
Each of us has moments of blindness when all we sense and all we see is our life without
the touch of God. Often we lack spiritual understanding, but we must exert ourselves to
remain with Christ by faith. Our comprehension and perception of God is sometimes grounded
in mystery yet we must use our spiritual muscle and believe. We must exert ourselves and
believe and remain faithful because we love Him and we know in our heart that He loves us.
We know what Christ expects of us if we confront His truth in his word and in His touch on
our heart. Even when we do not know the future, His love is enough. In our moments of
anxiety about our life or future, we can still have confidence we can face the future
without knowing the future. We must be willing to count the cost of our faith and then
knowing the cost be willing to pay any price, even life itself, to remain a humble child
of our Savior. We maintain our faith through trust in Christ. Each day we make an
investment of trust in Him because we know He invested His whole life on the Cross for us.
There are times when Christ does not show us the future for He knows our faith is fragile
and we would break from the fear. Whether we can see into the future or not, we know
Christ calls us to humbly accept His love, and His love is enough for us now and in the
days to come. The price we pay to remain in the faith is paid back to us in this life and
in our eternal life to come. In this life, we receive back moments of His joy and peace.
In the life to come, we receive eternal joy and peace.
