The Cost

You know that salvation is a free gift by my grace, but you also read in my word about counting the cost to follow me. This occurs after salvation and you have been taught that it will cost you everything. Does this cause you to look at your house and vehicle and realize they belong to me? Does this become a stressful exercise as you inventory all your possessions? Yet it doesn’t stop there, for you have some intangible things. Following me will cost you your reputation and independence, even as I made myself of no reputation and did only what I saw the Father doing. Unless a grain of wheat dies it abides alone. Lay down your life for me that you may truly live.