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“Cost of discipleship-Jack Blake”
Categories: Faithfulness, Repentance, Seeking GodGood Morning,
We must, according to the scriptures, consider the cost of discipleship. For if we do not bear His cross and follow after Him, we cannot be His disciple. See Luke 14. 25-30. Temptations are raging around us in this perverse, crooked and adulterous generation in which we live. Taking up our cross daily to follow Christ means we must know and do His commandments. John 14.15. Repentance of our sins is ongoing and ever present in our lives. It is easy enough say the words, Lord I have sinned, please forgive me this sin, or something similar and then continue to live in this same sin. True repentance is first recognizing and confessing our sins, ask for the Lord's forgiveness and then turning from those sins never to indulge in them again. The Christian life, the determination to take up our cross and follow Him, is not an easy life, but true repentance comes from a good, honest, and faithful heart, then the Lord will be faithful to forgive us our sins. With God all things are possible, and He has promised to never leave nor forsake us. Mark 10.27; Hebrews 13.5.
