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By Diane M. Bowman
03/03/16
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Building a house requires considerable preparation. First, you must purchase a plot of land. This calls for a meticulous search as you consider what you would prefer for your permanent view. Once the location is set, it is time to draft a house plan. What size of house will best suit your needs? Maybe a small cottage is enough or perhaps you require a half a dozen bedrooms to provide space for your growing family. Next, you must find a builder. With that accomplished, you have a signed contract, a bulldozer is sitting on your land, the concrete for the foundation is ordered, but there's just one thing left that you must do.

In many ways, the process of writing a book isn't considerably different from building a house, though you hope it will be a little less expensive. The diligent search isn't for a plot of land but for a topic to write about. With the theme in mind, your quest for information begins. Every place you go, you collect ideas that apply to your topic. Evernote becomes the most used app on your phone. Slowly, an outline begins to form, at least in your head if not on actual paper. There remains just one thing left that you must do.

The decision to become a follower of Jesus also takes extensive planning. Before making this crucial vow, you must first obey the instruction he gave the multitudes as they gathered to hear him speak. Any wise seeker of truth will consider what becoming his disciple will cost and attempt to determine if they are willing to sacrifice all they have for him. Once you have decided to give up all you call your own, even your own life, to serve the creator of the universe, just one thing is left for you to do.

Just one thing you must do.

Begin.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
(Luke 14:28 KJV)

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
(Matthew 16:24 KJV)

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