For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?-Luke 14:28 ESV

Warrior;
This question is not intended to scare people away from following Christ, BUT IT is meant to separate “Flash in the pan” emotional admirers, from true followers of the risen King. Jesus quickly gets to our HEART! Our Lord lays down in stringent words the law of discipleship as being self-sacrifice; the abandonment of the dearest, and the acceptance of the most painful. The building of the tower represents whatever human life ought to aim at, the rearing up of a strong, solid structure in which the builder may dwell and be at rest. We are all UNDER CONSTRUCTION, building by our actions, thoughts and NON-Actions; rearing up a dwelling for our souls. We are building character from these acts of conduct, which will be our dwelling place! 

Leader, what are you building? When you consider the construction that God Almighty is doing inside of us as He uses the process of SANCTIFICATION to MAKE us into the image of His Son and a TRUE DISCIPLE.

 Conduit, WHEN we consider the cost- It costs EVERYTHING! We will also realize we CANNOT do this, He must do it; Greater is He who is in YOU than He that is in the world! MacLaren’s exposition puts it best: “if, knowing our weakness, our misery, our poverty, and cleaving to Jesus Christ in simple confidence in His divine power breathed into our weakness, and His abundant riches lavished upon our poverty, we cast ourselves into the work to which He calls us by His grace, then we shall find that the sweet and certain assurance that we have Him for the possession and the treasure of our lives will make parting with everything else, not painful, but natural and necessary and a joy, as the expression of our supreme love to Him.” Amen!