So do you want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ ? You want to cast your lot with Him ? You want to be identified as one of His ? I bid you to count the cost, appraise the sacrifice, comtemplate long and hard before you leap
 
So, you still want to be a disciple ? Then expect hardship, rejection, discrimination, work, ill-treatment, no-thank-yous, misunderstanding, misuse and misinformation. Do you still want to be a disciple ? Then get ready for action...for hardship...for tiredness...for deprivation and loneliness
 
So you really want to be a disciple ? Be ready to pay any price, go any distance, penetrate any barrier, climb any mountain, swim any river, scale any height, descend to any depth and work any length as a servant of Jesus Christ. Be prepared to spend and be spent; to go or stay, to walk or lie down, to speak or be silent; to go forward or backward
 
So after all this, you still want to be a Christ-following disciple ?  Be ready to walk with Jesus when He walks through fields of unpopularity, streets of hostility, and roads of rejection. Be prepared to follow, even when His steps take you through suffering, persecution, humiliation and yes maybe even death. Be ready for living or dying, nothing or everything, giving or receiving, coming or going, rest or work, peace or war
 
Finally, are you willing - if Jesus asks you, to leave your family, friends and your home to serve the Kingdom of God ? Are you willing to leave everything and everyone you have ever known and move to another town, city, state or country to serve the eternal cause of the gospel? Because that is the calling  and the cost of being a disciple of our Lord  & Savior Jesus Christ
 
That's the price my friends.........and it never goes on sale !
 
 
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the eternal rewards you will receive for living a life as a disciple are just out-of-this world. And Jesus Himself will give you at the Judgement Seat of Christ your heavenly rewards that will last for all of eternity. You will also then hear Him say :" well done thy good and faithful servant " .  That is worth the price of living a life of a disciple !!!
 
 
have a blessed day,   Gary