Fellowship Is A Costly Thing

If that fellowship is disturbed between two people in the house of God...

It is not an easy thing for one to go and confess that they are wrong...

Not an easy thing to apologize for doing that harm.

It is not easy to humble ourselves before one another...

We will do anything rather than humble ourselves to another brother or sister. 

No...fellowship is a costly thing. 

It costs humiliation and confession. 

What is true between two is often true between a number. 

If we are going to keep the fellowship in the house of God, it's got to cost us something to do that.

There is a price attached to it.

And if we are not prepared to pay the price of fellowship, it is because we hold fellowship cheaply. 

You see, if a thing to us is of little value, we are not prepared to pay very much for it.

If we really do love the house of God, that is, the fellowship of the Lord's people, we will be prepared to pay any price to keep that fellowship.

A thing which is of value to us is a thing for which we will pay the price.

It is the same in our service to the Lord. 

~T. Austin Sparks~