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Failing To Understand The Costs

The Faith That Is Required First

By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)Published 3 months ago 2 min read

You Do Not Know What You Ask...

You Do Not Know What It Costs...

Especially When...

You are Not Ready.

This is perhaps One of the Greatest Challenges in Today's World.

So Many People...

Are Ready to Jump...

But Do Not See Where They are Jumping Toward.

Is there Another Ledge?

A Friendly Hand?

Or are You Jumping into a Chasm?

A Viper's Den?

Into an Endless Void that will Consume Your Very Soul?

They Claim to be Ready to Cross to the Next Room...

But Do Not Know What They Must Give to Gain Access...

Or What They Will Faced With once they Enter.

Is it Open Arms?

Or a Bloodthirsty Horde that Seeks Everything You have Brought with You?

No...

You Do Not Know What You Ask...

Nor Do You Understand the Costs...

Yet when I Tell You This...

You Do Not Believe Me...

Your Passion is Blinded by Ignorance of Things You Do Not Yet Know...

And If I Tell You What it Will Cost...

You Will Not Believe It to be True.

You Believe that Faith is Charging Forward without Fear...

But this is Not Faith.

This is Blind Arrogance, which will Become Your Downfall if You are Not Wary.

Faith...

It is Patient...

It is Understanding...

Fully and Completely...

Knowing and Accepting All the Costs in their Entirety...

However Dire and Steep that they Are.

No My Child...

You are Not Ready.

Now is Not the Time.

One Day...

Before You Realize It Will Arrive...

But Not This Day.

For Now You Must Be Patient...

You Must Wait...

You Must Become Wise and Understand What it Really Means...

What it Really Costs...

For When the Day Does Arrive...

You Will Want to Be Ready...

The Opportunity You Seek is But a Small Window...

One Which You will Need Clear Vision to See...

An Untroubled Heart...

With Clarity to Act in the Way that is Required.

Only Then...

Only Then Will You Be Ready.

Until that Moment...

Have Faith.

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About the Creator

Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)

Multi-Award-Winning Sageship Coach, Daily Digital Writer (1,000+ Articles), Producer, TV Show Host, Podcaster & Speaker | Faith, Family, Freedom, Future | Categories: "Sageship" & "Legendary Leadership"

https://www.SeekingSageship.org/

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