If you are really going to take such a step as that of following Christ, you must count the cost. Friends must be given up for Christ: A man may have to leave everything else, but the question is, Am I to leave God?
“You cannot have two hearts—a heart for the world, and a heart for Me,” Christ would say. I tremble when I see people who have not counted the cost, setting out in the profession of following Christ. It is God’s way to put the barrier at the start. If you can leap that, you will do.