Have You Counted the Cost?
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Two young soldiers were talking about the service of 
Christ. One of them said: "I cannot tell you all that 
The Lord Jesus is to me, or what He has done for me. 
I do wish you would enlist in His army!" "I am thinking 
about it," answered the other young man, "but it means 
giving up several things - in fact, I am counting the cost."

A Christian officer, just passing, heard the last remark, 
and laying his hand on the shoulder of the young soldier, 
said: "Young man, you talk of counting the cost of following 
Christ, but have you ever counted the cost of not following 
Him?" For days that question exercised the mind of that 
young man, and he found no rest till he trusted the Lord 
Jesus Christ, the Saviour of sinners, whose faithful soldier 
he has been for twenty-seven years. 

- T., in Scattered Seed