Counting the cost

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[Luke 14:28-29]; For which of you intending to build a tower sittest not down first and counteth the cost whether he has sufficient to finish it?Lest haply after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it all that behold it begin to mock him.

There is a cost to everything that a man will seek to accomplish in this life and one ought to know how to count it.In the understanding of the mystery of his will, we know that all the works of God were finished from the beginning.The counting of the cost is therefore not about the man attaching labour and price to what must be finished but rather the ability to perceive the finished work.

That is the starting place of him making provision for what he must accomplish. No man makes provision for that which he has not seen or that whose end he has not fully perceived.

In counting the cost, the place of asking whether he has sufficient to finish is not about asking if he has enough capital for the business or if he has enough money to buy machines. It is in understanding the sufficiency of God.

When a man perceives his end and understands the Lord his sufficiency who is able to make all grace abound towards him, that man prays big, he fasts big, he gives big, he serves big, he submits big.

It is possible to start well. But you must also finish well, child of God. You cannot just end. You must end big. Many must study the testimony of your life and not have one single reason to mock at it for it will evidently not be the work of man but the work of God. That is your story.

Scripture Reference

Hebrews 4:3, 2 Corinthians 3:5

The counting of the cost therefore is the ability of the man to perceive the finished work.
 

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I would say the counting of the cost is the willingness to enter into the work. The willingness to complete what was started. One may perceive the work being finished, but not be willing to put in the effort to get there.

But yes, we do need to count the cost.
 
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