John F. MacArthur says - Proverbs 13:15 puts it this way, "The way of the transgressor is hard." The way of the disciple may be costly but the way of the disciple is not hard, for Jesus said, "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for My yoke is...what?...easy and My burden is light." The real price is paid by the one who will not pay the price of discipleship. The hardness belongs to the way of the transgressor. And all of Scripture and all of human experience merely records the reality of that fact. To reject righteousness, to reject salvation, to reject being a disciple of Jesus Christ is to choose the hardest way...a life of crushing guilt, a life of unanswerable questions, a life of hopeless disappointment, a life of endless and unsolvable problems and after all of that to spend forever in hell. And so we should conclude and be reminded, I think, regularly that though the cost of discipleship is high and though it demands a willingness to give up all we are to follow Christ, it is small when compared to the high cost of refusing to become a follower of Jesus Christ. To follow Jesus Christ is costly, but easy and that is the wondrous paradox of discipleship. In fact in 1 John 5:3 John even reminds us that His commandments are not burdensome.
Soren Kierkegaard, a philosopher, said this, "It costs a man even more to go to hell."
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