So often it seems that doing the right thing is ten times harder than not.
Buying music from the shop instead of copying it from a friend is a lot harder because the alternative costs. You have to go out and get a job, earn the money in order to buy that album.
At work skipping over that paperwork, disregarding a safety proceedure being economical with the truth always seems the easiest option. We even try to justify it by saying well at least the work is done or quicker than it would have taken, particularly when the pressure is on because the alternative costs.
In relationships only ever talking about the weather, trying to shirk responsibility, just slipping out before that person comes to talk to you again, again! Can seem a lot easier, because we are busy, because there are more important things to do because the alternative costs.
These costs are all a surrender of the "I wants" and "I needs" in our lives. They are all about realising that as Christians there is a new Lord in our life, there is a new person in the driving seat a new person sitting on the throne and that person is Jesus Christ. Why should we bare these costs, why should we surrender the rule of our lives? Because of the cost Jesus bore for us in order that we can enjoy a restored relationship. As Paul says in ch 2 vs 13 "we ought always to give thank to God... because he chose us as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth."
Therefore ch 3 vs 13 let us "not grow weary of doing good" despite the cost...
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