Not without a Price!
Happy Sunday!
In life, there are prices we must pay to attain certain heights and achieve certain results. No great thing is being done or achieved that easily. Every great person we see today, every successful person we see today once paid a price and are still paying prices.
By paying the price, I mean being ready to do the needful, going the extra mile, forgoing certain frivolities and shunning laziness. Paying the price has to do you leaving your comfort zone because success is never found there.
And when He had called the people unto Him with His disciples also, He said unto them, “Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. (Mark 8:34)
Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour taught us this thing when he chooses to die on the cross for us. God would have just forgiven man but He chooses not to do so instead, He sent Jesus to pay the price for our salvation and freedom. Jesus paid the ultimate price for us all.
You might have discovered that no one prospers outstandingly in your family, to break that jinx you must pay some prices through radical prayers. To make it as an outstanding accountant, Engineer, nurse, or teacher, you must pay the price to study. To be the medical doctor you always aspired to be, there is a price. To fulfill your dreams of becoming an Engineer, there's a price. To be a great minister of the gospel, there's a price. Every time you dream of greatness about your life and destiny, remember that there's a price.
The difference between wishers and achievers is sacrifice. Evaluate your life today, then you will know whether you are heading to success. You can spend time watching films and chatting all day on social media and expect to finish like Ben Carson. It doesn't work that way. Sacrifice makes great men. As you know this in this early days of your life, start the journey today; burn the midnight candles; take along some fastings and isolate yourself from distractions.
Friend, it won't be that easy without a price, except you don't want to stand out of the crowd. You will keep getting same results, if you keep doing things same way. In your journey with Christ, you have a price to pay. You have to decide to not follow the crowd and deprive yourself of many vain pleasures.
Great message there!
Anyone who desires to achieve a feat will first sit down and count the cost, to see if he is able to
pay the price,then, he knows what to do. Jesus Christ knew what he was sent to do, and that's why He offered the greatest sacrifice to save mankind.