COST OF DISCIPLESHIP MUST BE COUNTED, continued
Probably Peræa
LUKE 14:28-35
"Simply put, if you're not willing to take what is dearest to you, whether plans or people, and kiss it good-bye, you can't be my disciple." -Luke 14:33
"You must be always ready for the cross, always preparing for it, whether it seem near, or whether it seem further off. One paraphrase the words thus, “Whosoever doth not come to Me with a preparation of mind to suffer anything rather than part with Me, he is not for My turn.” This is to bear the cross daily, as Christ requires Luk_9:1-62. Though every day do not afford a cross, yet every day we bear the cross by daily preparing for it 1Co_15:31:
"...Even when the cross seems far off, much more when it is in view, you must be preparing for it, if you be Christians indeed; and the Lord will take your readiness to bear it for a bearing of it, when He sees good to prevent it....
It speaks actual undergoing it when it is laid on us. But when the Lord brings it to us, we must actually take it up. He is no disciple for Christ that will not do it...
...To bear the cross as a disciple of Christ, is to bring forth more fruit in bearing of it." -BI, D. Clarkson, B. D.
"Nelaton, the great French surgeon, once said that if he had four minutes in which to perform an operation on which a life depended, he would take one minute to consider how best to do it." (Baxendale’s Anecdotes.)
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