What is the cost?

Last night at Bible study we were discussing "Taking up our cross and following Jesus."   

Meanwhile, our class is doing a bible study on Crazy Love and we came to the chapter that talks about truly giving up things of this world and doing the work of God.  And as books sometimes do, they make us feel inadequate.  

Many of us felt that based on what some people do, we could never measure up to that so we must not be doing enough.  

Now, I know that I will never compare to some of the Saints of the world, but I would like to think that what little bit that I do try to do will be just as important, but maybe on a different level.

Something the preacher said that really made it all make since to me was this.
Grace is free, but the cost is everything.

We must be willing to give up anything that we put higher than God, and let him come first in our lives.

And what I have a passion for, may not be what you have a passion for, but that's OK, as long as we all have a passion.

So we shouldn't feel like we will never be good enough, or we can never do enough because without God's grace, we can't.  But Thanks to him, we only need do what we can.