the cost of it all

It has been a while since I have posted anything, and that I am ok with. Fact of the matter is, I am just busy. This last week it almost felt like too much, like I was being Martha, but these past few days the Lord has been gracious and helping me to sit at his feet, even with two jobs, almost full time school, and all my other obligations. He certainly is most worthy of our praise. Again I don't have much time, so I will leave with a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Cost of Discipleship.

He is called out, and has to forsake his old life in order that he may "exist" in the strictest sense of the word. The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity (that is, in truth, into the absolute security and safety of the fellowship of Jesus), from a life which is observable and calculable (it is, in fact, quite incalculabele) into a life where everything is unobservable and fortuitious (that is, into one which is necessary and calculable), out of the realm of finite ( which is in truthe the infinite) into the realm of infinite possibilities (which is the one liberating reality). Again it is no universal law. Rather is it the exact opposite of all legality. It is nothing else than bondage to Jesus Christ alone, completely breaking through every programme,every ideal, every set of laws. No other significance is possible, since Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

When we are called to follow Christ, we are summoned to an exclusive attachment to his person. The grace of his call bursts all the bonds of legalism. It is a gracious call, a gracious commandment. It transcends the difference between the law and the gospel. Christ calls, the disciple follows: that is grace and commandment in one. "I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy commandments" (Ps. 119.45).

Amen.

p.s. sorry didn't have time to proof read...