None of These Things Move Me, But I Count the Cost

Have you ever been put in a position where you know the right thing to do but you also know that if you do it it will cost you? Jesus has something to say about that.

"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions."
‭‭Luke‬ ‭14:27-33‬ ‭NASB‬‬

We must count the cost. What will it cost us to do what is right and to choose a clean conscience over not making waves with the status quo? Reputation? Friends? Sorrow? Sadness? Conflicting feelings? Tears? Broken heart? Discouragement? Disapproval? Loss of membership in a group? Feeling outcast?

"But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God."
‭‭Acts‬ ‭20:24‬ ‭KJV‬‬

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:37-39‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Yes, we might temporarily experience all the negative things listed above, but in the end we will have joy because none of these things can separate us from the love of God.