HAVE YOU COUNTED THE COST?

DAY 312

Proverbs 24:10 introduces a very interesting preamble to our discourse today. It reads ‘If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.’ The real question to ponder on therefore from today’s text is the question Jesus asks  ‘have you counted the cost?’

In Jesus’ discourse today, He uses the building of a tower and a king heading into battle as reference points. He asks this question

"For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it—(Luke 14:28)

As far as this building goes, a tower is the end goal and one must first count the cost before starting to build. The concept of  ‘I will start and then think’ does not work here because in the case of the king headed out to war, there is potential to lose his entire army of 10000 if he does not get his strategy right before the battle starts.

Failing to count the cost can turn out to be a very costly option because whenever you run head first into any battle you are unprepared for, you increase the likelihood of getting ‘wiped out’. Your strength could appear to fail, not because it isn’t there, but because it’s capacity has not been counted against the coming onslaught.

Have you counted the cost of what you intend to do?

#sly