Devotion 4.05/159: Luke 14:28-33: Credit Card Holiday

We have just finished a great family vacation through Kentucky and Tennessee. The exchange rate was not in our favour and gas and food were more expensive than we had anticipated. The weather convinced us to spend more money than we had planned on hotels rather than the campsites that we had planned on staying at. We had planned our vacation in advance so, even with these factors in play, we were able to make it back to Canada after a great holiday.

I did think though about these verses in Luke 14:

28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

31 “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

To follow Jesus, the cost is everything.  Life will throw difficulties our way. That is just what happens. We need to realize that and be prepared. We need to finish what we started or we are lost. Jesus is our credit card and as he is the account we can draw on in times of trouble. As we press ahead, relying on him. Everything will be alright.

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