Luke 14:27, 28, 31, 33 (Concordant Literal New Testament)
27 And anyone who is not bearing his cross and coming after Me, can not be My disciple. ” 28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, is not first seated to calculate the expense, to see if he has the wherewithal?” …31 Or what king, going to engage another king in battle, will not, being seated, first plan to see if he is able to meet, with ten thousand, him who is coming against him with twenty thousand? …33 Thus, then, everyone of you who is not taking leave of all of his possessions, cannot be My disciple.”
Came across this today which connected nicely to the title of this post. Quite a few interior truths here to add to the tower :-). connects to the current LP reading 4611-4621 too. AC 2654 [3] The human rational – that is to say, the rational formed from images of worldly things received through the senses, and later on from images of things analogous to actual worldly ones, such as are received from factual knowledge and from cognitions – virtually laughs or mocks if it is told that it does not live of itself but only appears to itself to… Read more »
Thank you for posting this. And this rational can be, and often is “Very Loud” in its mocking.
Yes it is very loud but the Lord turns this into a use. So reflections on this just now. There is a contact push from the natural – self improvement mode – to want to “see’ an improvement and progress in our spiritual life. Essentially to want to ‘see’ good. But we cant see good. We can only see truth. Truth is beautiful so it allows us to feel it’s good- as in the affection for it. But really the purpose of truth is to show up its opposite. All we are asked to do in the life of charity… Read more »