Hakuna Matata! ~ NOT

TOPIC: Counting the Cost

SCRIPTURE: "For which of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' " (Luke 14:28-30)

OBSERVATION: When a builder doesn't count the cost or estimates it inaccurately, his building may be left half completed. While I was in Brazil back in 1999 I saw many such buildings. The foundation was laid the steel beams were up but that was it, and you could easily see that no one had been on site for a very long time. How sad.

APPLICATION: Will your commitment to Jesus be abandoned after a little while because you did not count the cost?

What are those costs?

Here are some things to take into consideration:
You may face loss of social status
You may have to give up control of:
your money
your time
or
your career.

You may be hated
separated from your family
&
like many of our brothers and sister around the world
even put to death.

I remember hearing a song in one of my kids movies
Entitled: Hakuna Matata!
It means no worries
For the rest of your days
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!

NOT !!!

Following Christ does NOT mean a trouble-free life.
We must carefully count the cost of becoming Christ's disciples so that we will firmly hold to our faith and won't be tempted later to turn back.

And believe you me
or
just read the bible
&
believe it

YOU
will be tempted
2 turn back
The New Testament is full of warnings to Christians

So

Count the cost
Because
there are cost
to be counted

Count on it

PRAYER: Father God, thanks for keeping it as simple as 1 + 1 = 2.