Cost of Living

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. Jesus is “ ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”   Acts 4:8-12

what is the cost of living?

sadness,

joy,

sorrow,

suffering,

pain,

hopelessness,

satisfaction,

fulfillment,

emptiness,

loneliness,

death;

decisions made,

consequences paid;

for every breath there is a cost;

evil in the name of righteousness,

hypocrisy in the form of light,

of such things are men made,

by such things do they fall,

standing fast on truths

they understand not,

blinded by sanctimonious testimony,

lost on roads leading to nowhere;

who shall pay the debt?

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