Cincinnati Bengals Chaplain LaMorris Crawford spells out the cost of discipleship—what it means to abandon everything to follow Jesus:

“We don’t know what tomorrow holds. Did I know back in 1999 when I gave my life to Christ that we would be fighting a major sickness with my wife? No. Did Peter know that his mother-in-law would become deathly ill? Did the disciples know that following Jesus would mean they needed to deny themselves and leave everything?”

Check out LaMorris’ article on The Increase: http://theincrease.com/featured-articles/the-cost-of-discipleship-lamorris-crawford/