Tonight I was thinking about training for my bodybuilding shows. We put in so may hours at the gym and food prep.  We do so many things to change our body. My schedule is up at 4am eat and then at the gym at 430am workout until 630am. I come home and eat and then get dressed for work. Then I am back at the gym at 6pm to do an hour of cardio.  This goes on Monday thru Saturday.  I will do this for 16 to 18 weeks out from a show.  I Eat up to 8 meals a day all weighed out and pack up. I eat every three hours. I put the right food into my body and watch what I eat. When I feel like my body is not changing I will cut calories or change my intake and change up the food I take.  Close to the show I am ready 3% body fat and my muscles are all showing and you can see all the details.  Its amazing how you can change your body by putting the correct food into your body.  Everyday you can see the change.  It taked hard work and when your down you just have to keep going. So why do I tell you this?
Lets look at out walk with Christ. in Malachi 3:6 God talks about Changing us but lets think if it taked this muh work and time to change my body what makes you think it will not take time and work.  There is nothing we can do because God has done it for us by sending his Jesu to die for us, but God calls us to spend time with him and put the correct things into out body.  So lets think we ask God to Change us or thesituation we are in but are we putting in the time with him. Just like the gym if I want to change my body I just don't go to the gym and look at the weights.  No I use he weights to change my body. So are we allowing God to change us or are we just going to church and sitting there? Are we just opening are Bible on the table reading one scripture and saying ok I did it so God Change me.  No we hav to put in the time with Him we have to put the word into our body just like the food I have to eat.  God doent change at all as it is said in 1 Samuel 15:29.  We are the ones that change by allowing God to change us. We have to trust him and allow him into our heart. So remember in any situation your in God will change it but for his will not ours. Its not about us.  Sometimes we are in situations that we just want to end but how easy would that be if God just said ok its done.  What would we learn, but we have to lean on him and not our own strength.  So I challenge myself to let God  lead me and teach me for what he wants with me, but it takes me to put in the time with God also. He wants us to come to him.  

So what is cost?  This is something that cost us some thing in life. So lets think about things we have purchased that we look back on and realize it cost us because we don't use it and it sits on a shelf or we have tossed it away.  We look back and think why did I purchase that. Why do we do these things? it because we do it without thinking about it we do it because its what we want. When we make decision's like that it will cost us.  We need to stop think and pray about it.

We don't realize the things we do will cost us later.  Its like drugs people take them because it helps at the time and makes us feel better, but we don't realize what the effects will cost later.  Once you come off the drugs then you realize the effects it has on you and the cost.

So what decisions and choices have we made in life that cost us  Jobs, Relationships, Marriages, and ETC.  We need to stop and pray about it. God calls us to follow him and him only.  When we follow Him we make decisions based on what God calls us to do God knows best.  God call us to pick up his cross and follow him this comes from Luke 9:23.  So when making choices in you life stop and pray and listen to God. Someone once told me if you have to ask someone do you think I should do this then you should not.  You need to be sure your making choices for you and you only.  This is why you should be listening to God.