Good judgment wins favor,
but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.
Being a Christian is going to be the hardest thing you will ever do. The standards are high, the path is small, and the gate is narrow. It is a long race of endurance and in the end it will cost you everything to run it. Jesus asks his disciples to deny themselves and carry the cross, to suffer persecutions for his Name's sake, and to give up their mother and father, brothers and sisters, wives and children, and even their own lives so that Jesus takes precedence. He asks you to leave everything and come follow him. Indeed, the way of God is costly.
But even more costly is the way of the unfaithful. They breed misery and destruction. They hunger for more and are never satisfied. They use and oppress each other for selfish gain and as soon as they amass wealth they realize the bitterness and loneliness of life for nothing can satisfy a man's soul like Christ. And to top off their so called "fabulous lifestyle" is destruction. They spend their entire lives trying to gain all things only to lose it all in death, but a Christian seeks to lose all things only to gain them all in eternal life. Truly those who seek to save their lives will lose them, but those who lose their lives for Christ's sake will save them.
Now which one costs more? Why work for that which you cannot keep?
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