Counting The Cost

Random thoughts on walking with Jesus in this turvy-topsy world

Nothing Without Christ

There is something common in the next three words: Christendom, Christianity and Christian. They are all centered on the word Christ. Remove Christ from these words and you end up with a religion instead of Christendom, remove Christ from Christianity, you end up with Churchanity, remove Christ from Christian, you end up with these three letters: IAN - I am nothing.

Without Christ you end up with no meaning in any of the above titles. Knowing Christ is everything.

- Pastor Thurston Ott

Nothing Without Christ 

By Newsong  

I was like a blind man on a road that led nowhere,
Just an empty-hearted beggar in desperate need of help.
I was poor in spirit, but He was rich in love.
I was down to nothin' when He came to lift me up.
Now I will never let myself forget all He has done -
How He came and rescued me and where He brought me from.

Chorus:
I am nothing without Christ, He is everything to me,
He's the reason that I live, He is my only need.
I know I couldn't make it through
One day without Jesus in my life
I am nothing, nothing without Christ.

There is nothing good in me that did not come from Him -
Nothing I could boast of that He did not give.
From the moment I cried out to Him to heal my troubled soul
He welcomed me with open arms, said all that's Mine is yours.

Like a wave without a seashore or a kingdom with no king
without Jesus in my life, I know I wouldn't be complete

Now I will never let myself forget all He has done,
how He came and rescued me and where He brought me from.

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Choosing Christianity

Every man must choose his world. If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the Kingdom of God as our sphere of interest I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain we rob no one by so doing. 

- A.W. Tozer

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Jesus is Everything

'Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us. ...There is nothing good, nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous which He is not to His servants. No one need be poor, because, if he chooses, he can have Jesus for his own property and possession. No one need be downcast, for Jesus is the joy of heaven, and it is His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts. We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more.'

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Abiding in Jesus Christ

... To let my loving Savior work in me His will, my sanctification, is what I would live for by His grace. Abiding, not striving nor struggling; looking off unto Him; trusting Him for present power... resting in the love of an almighty Savior, in the joy of a complete salvation, "from all sin" -- this is not new, and yet 'tis new to me... Christ literally all seems to me, now, the power, the only power for service, the only ground for unchanging joy...
    How then to have our faith increased? Only by thinking of all that Jesus is and all He is for us: His life, His death, His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving to have faith... but a looking off to the Faithful One seems all we need; a resting in the Loved One entirely, for time and eternity.
    ... I looked to Jesus, and when I saw -- oh, how joy flowed!

- Excerpted from “The Exchanged Life” by Hudson Taylor (missionary to China)

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A Girl's Guide to Beauty

Beauty Tips  

   For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
   For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
   For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
   For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her hands through it once a day.
   For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
   People even more than things, have to be restored, revived, reclaimed and
                redeemed;
   Never throw anybody out;
   Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your
                arm.
   As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping
                yourself, the other for helping others.
   The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or
                the way she combs her hair.
   The beauty of a woman must be seen within her heart, the place where love
                resides.
   The beauty of a woman is not a facial mole,
   But true beauty is reflected in her soul.
   It is the caring that she lovingly gives,
   The kindness that she shows,
   And the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows! 

-Author  unknown

   “If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.”  -Kate Halverson

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Odd for God!

"A real Christian is an odd number.  He feels supreme love for one whom he has never seen.  He talks familiarly every day to someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another, empties himself that he might be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up.  He is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, happiest when he feels worst.  He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passeth knowledge.”                                                                                                       -A. W. Tozer

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:24-26

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The Father's Love

A father and his small son were taking a ride in the car one afternoon.  A big bee flew in the window.  The boy was severely allergic to bees and in fear for his life started dodging the angry bee.  The bee landed on the dash and the father reached out his hand and caught the bee.  He held onto it for a bit, then let it go.  The boy started dodging the bee again, but his father said, “Relax son, the bee can’t hurt you anymore.”
   “Why?” the boy asked.
   The father explained that the bee had stung him when he held it in his hand.  The bee’s stinger was stuck in his hand and it could no longer sting anyone.
   In like manner, Jesus removed the sting of death for us when He died on the cross.  He suffered for us so that we wouldn’t have to.

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”  Romans 5:8,9  

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