WORD OF GOD - LK 14:27-28 & 33

LUKE 14:27-28 &33

Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.

---- Mine,

There is no reward without pain, no crown without the cross, no salvation without following Me with your own cross to Calvary. Sorrow, pain, loss, disappointment, persecution, sickness, death are a necessary part of mortal life and more so in the life of a disciple. Before you choose to pick up your cross and come after Me, understand well what it will cost you. Unless you are prepared to lose your life you cannot save it. Unless you are prepared to go all the way to the annihilation of self for the sake of the Kingdom of God, you will fall by the wayside and perish. Ask and I will give you all you need in your journey from this life to the next.