The Price of Love

Love is not a feeling or about something that you like. It is about what you want to achieve. If you want to be a champion marathon runner, then it is the achievement that you are after but there is a very tough price to pay for that. You’ve got to practice, you’ve got to punish your body, you’ve got to abstain from certain foods. There is a price to be paid. For every pleasure in live there is a price to be paid. If you want to be a pilot, you must go to ground school, it will cost you a lot of money, you will need to go through all the training. And if you endure, and very few do, if you endure, you get your wings, you go solo. Very few pilots go solo. If you want to be a wrestler or a boxer or anything if you want six pack abs, if you want to be a muscle man, the exercise, the training, is not nice, it is tough, but you are after the result . Dear friends, if we want eternal life then we must obey Jesus Christ, then we must stop sinning and do what He commands us to do. Jesus loved us so much that He paid the price. It was not pleasure for Him to come to this earth, to leave His glory, to take on the form of a Servant, to walk the dust streets, to be rejected, to be hated, to be persecuted and eventually to be crucified by His own whom He loved. He cared so much for them, that He came to redeem them, to pay the price for their sins. The wages of sin is death my friend. You and I deserve death. Jesus took the pain, He paid the price and He is offering us eternal life with Him AT A PRICE. And that price is OBEDIENCE TO HIM. He gives us eternal life for free, if we accept Him as Lord but there is a condition to it. He said: If you love Me, obey Me. He died for us, so we must die to ourselves and our sinful desires and live a life to please Him. And thereby we prove that we love Him. Is it nice to follow Jesus? NO, certainly not. Is it nice to be persecuted because of the Name of Jesus? Certainly not. Sin has its pleasures but sin has its rewards, if we keep on sinning, then the wages of sin is death. We need to live holy and obey Jesus, if we love Him. If we love the end result which is eternal life with Jesus Christ in His Kingdom. Dear friend, do you love Jesus or do you love sin? It all depends on where you want to end up. Jesus loved us so much that He paid the price. Do we love Him so much that we will pay the price and obey Him so that we can spend eternity with Him in Heaven. May Jesus bless you.

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