Luk 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
I think this has many spiritual meanings to it. One point I want to touch on is this.
Counting the cost. Jesus said sitteth down not first and counteth the cost. Many times in are christian live we fail to do this. We count the cost before we shop. We count the cost before we buy things we want. We plan for retirement. We count everything, it seems in this old world. A world that, we will leave. A world that will rot and decay away. We have done all we can to save and build in this world. What I want to talk about is looking at some cost in the spiritual world. I know this is true because of my own life. Many times were I failed to count the cost, and it costed so much more than I wanted to pay.
In the book of Gen. 13:12 Lot had a choice, Abram said you go this way and I'll the other. Here we see a saved man of God, standing at a crossroad of choices. Like so many times we find are selfs. Lot weighted it all up, money, retirement, collage for the kids. He weighed all the worldly things that we as parent would weigh. Lot didnt weigh it up on the christian side of his life. He didnt weigh the cost of compromising God word for success in this world. My friend, may the Lord,God of heaven give us his people the wisdom to weigh the choices of this world, against the ways of God. Not to cut it short, but in the end Lot lost his family, he had no testimony, and his wife died, and his two young daughters was immoral. So much Lot paid, so much lost, because he didnt weigh the cost. I hope God will help me and all others to stop and weighed the cost before we pay more than we ever would want too. If you read this and your lost, may the Holy Spirt touch your heart and cause you to see that there is a cost coming that you do not want to pay, a cost that has been paid, a cost that you will spend eternity paying if you dont trust Christ as you Savior. May God bless.
Sgt. in Iraq
