The Cost of Following

[Mat 16:24-27]

If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his execution-stake and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man gain in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels to reward each person according to what he has done.

This passage gets me every time.

If ever there comes a day when professing Yeshua warrants the death penalty, I hope my conviction makes for an expedient trial.