WOD "Chasing Fran" For time: Run 1 Mile 21 Thrusters (95/65) 21 Pull-ups Run 800M 15 Thrusters 15 Pull-ups Run 500M 9 Thrusters 9 Pull-ups VOD - Romans 7:18 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. "It costs something to be a true Christian. Let that never be forgotten. To be a mere nominal Christian, and go to church, is cheap and easy work. But to hear Christ’s voice, and follow Christ, and believe in Christ, and confess Christ, requires much self-denial. It will cost us our sins, and our self-righteousness, and our ease, and our worldliness. All – all must be given up. We must fight an enemy, who comes against us with twenty thousand followers. We must build a tower in troublesome times. Our Lord Jesus Christ would have us thoroughly understand this. He bids us ‘count the cost.’ "Our Lord spoke as He did to prevent men from following Him lightly and inconsiderately, from mere animal feeling or temporary excitement, who in time of temptation would fall away. He bids all who think of taking service with Him count the cost before they begin. "Well would it be for the church and the world if the ministers of Christ would always remember their Master’s conduct in this passage. Often, -far too often, - people are built up in self-deception, and encouraged to think they are converted when in reality they are not converted at all. Feelings are supposed to be faith. Convictions are supposed to be grace. These things ought not so to be. By all means let us encourage the first beginnings of religion in a soul. But never let us urge people forward without telling them what true Christianity entails. Never let us hide from them the battle and the toil. Let us say to them ‘come with us,’ – but let us also say ‘count the cost.’"
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:14:44 +0000
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