20/09/2025
“Woe to us if we think we should or can be motivated and strengthened for radical, costly obedience by some higher motive than the joy that is set before us.
When Jesus called for costly obedience that would require sacrifice in this life, he said in Luke 14:14, ‘You will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.’
In other words, be strengthened now in all your losses for Christ’s sake, because of the joy set before you.”
- John Piper