"As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus."
LUKE 23:26
The cost of giving your life in its entirety to Christ Jesus is the losing of your current life. Not literally - but in the reality orientation of how the world is viewed from your own eyes. It is a new spirit - it is the Lord now living in you as witness to your faith in him.
Be rightly obedient to the Lord in all things. Allow him to change you through faith and obedience. His desire is to make you a lampstand - consecrated for all he chooses to see. In obedience, others will call you down - say you are a blasphemer and not a Christian. It is because those that cannot hear the Lord do not recognize him in you.
Your obedience causes change for others. You are not a stand-alone Christian worker to be kept in private. No - to be used by God is to be before people - it is the souls of people that the Lord is after. The harvest is in the darkness - Christ is the light. When you are obedient in all situations to God - the people around you will be affected. Many will be displeased with you - but fear not it is better to disappoint a person than to turn your back on obedience to God.
The Lord places you before people - for the people he has placed you before. He will work in them through your act of obedience to him. So do not worry how your faith and obedience to God affects others in the natural. Your obedience to the light will allow you to be a light - so one that does not know the light may see the light and be saved.
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