My 5 Acres

 

I hope you have read my story of The Parable of Joe. If you have, let me ask: Are you like Joe?

Have you prayed the sinner’s prayer but haven’t died to self, picked up your cross, and followed Christ? Maybe you haven’t truly counted the cost of being a disciple of Christ. Are you just going to church because you feel it’s something you must do to be a Christian and to show others, you’re one?

Let me assure you, there is no good work we can do that will save us! We must commit our whole lives to Christ and follow Him with everything we are.

Are you ready to become radicalized for Christ? Let me tell you—it’s not too late. All we have to do is repent, confess our sins, and believe that Christ came, died on the cross, and rose again on the third day. But like I’ve said, it’s more than just a prayer. Repentance is a verb; it’s an action. We must turn from our sins and follow Christ wholeheartedly and die to self

Find a good Bible believing church and read your Bible daily. This will not save you, but it will help you grow in Christ and get to know the risen savior.

The Cost of Discipleship 

Luke 14:25-33 (ESV)
Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 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? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.