What will it cost?

Everything. The cost is all of you for all of God. All of you, for all of the Spirit. A bit of you will not cut it. “God knows my heart” while you still lie and cheat won’t cut it.  “God only looks at the heart” while you make excuses for riotous and reckless living won’t cut it. In the book of Luke chapter 5, the disciples finally got what they toiled all night for. THE FISH. A net breaking number of fish that filled two boats but the bible says they left it all to follow Jesus. They left the boats, the nets, the fish they worked so hard to get, the customers, to follow Jesus. Do you know what it means to follow Jesus after you have received what you want? Would you still follow if you woke up a millionaire? Would you still serve as much as you do now? If you got the job? If you met the Ruth and Boaz? Would you still follow Him? Would l ? Yet Simon in John 6 says , “Master we have forsaken everything to follow you!”

You leave something for something. Nobody ever leaves for no reason, people only leave when they have found something better, have been chased away or rejected or are fed up of something. In this instance we are not told that they were fed up of fishing or they were chased from the sea ,they found something better. Let me tell you, there’s no yielding in bits and pieces. You don’t yield the fish and keep the net. They left everything! Meaning right now if God asks you to yield all your finances for the church building project, you literally yield every cent. My friend, here we will go from milk to solids, we will teach each other the meat of the gospel. “Oh no God wouldn’t ask me for that much” Ehh do you know a man called Abraham? Why did he go to mount Moriah? For a braai? To sightsee? For fresh air? Was he exercising or participating in some hiking challenge? No. He went to yield what was in that moment his boat, net and fish , Isaac.

Are you ready to yield? To walk the hard but necessary path? If God says give me Isaac, would you? Lay him on the altar, bind him up and raise your hand to stab him, shoo! Yielding costs everything and you’ll soon understand why l say so as we keep climbing the ladder. The cost of yielding is never calculated by man … the one who totals it is GOD.

What did it cost Jesus to yield to the Father?Everything. It cost Him heaven, He left It to come to earth. It also cost Him earth, He hung there on the cross, a yielded Son, even unto His last breath, never did He yield to His own will… that’s it family. To yield. To surrender. To submit. It is everything. It costs everything. It demands everything. 
Selah.

You are special. God loves you, l love you.💞

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