Considering alternatives?

Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. - Proverbs 13:15

Following Christ can be hard but, considering the alternatives, life without Christ is harder and has no future.

"To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved...The "cost of discipleship," though it make take all we have, is small when compared to the lot of those who don't accept Christ's invitation to be a part of his company in The Way of life.¹

- fritz

^{1 - The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard}