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I confess. I love chocolate. For me, it's worth it to pay neary $6 for 30 little squares of this particular dark chocolate rather than $1.25 for a big chocolate bar. I'm willing to pay the price because I value the product.

There is also a price of discipleship. Sometimes we are asked to sacrifice personal comforts and desires. In Luke 14, we learn some of the expectations that Jesus Christ has for His disciples. We are asked to place the kingdom of God first in our lives and in our hearts. The price is worth the blessings.

After reading Luke 14:25-34 together, we read a great quote by Elder Maxwell about choosing to follow the Savior. He says:

"It is not just that God will insist that we choose for our own sake, but that those who depend upon us, or use us as a reference point, need and deserve to know which way we are going. It is no good posing as a lifeguard if one is a non-swimmer. It is no good being a guide if one leaves his post and wanders with the multititude in search of another way, 'for there is none other way,' especially at a time when there is a sharper and sharper divergence in the way of the world and the straight and narrow way. The disciple must not only stand in 'holy places' but on holy issues and 'not be moved.'"

We finished class by watching the last half of a talk called "The Way" by Elder Corbridge of the Seventy, which he gave in the Saturday afternoon session of this last General Conference. It is an excellent talk that makes our choice of whether to follow the Savior or not very clear. Among other things, Elder Corbridge says this:

"We can either follow the Lord and be endowed with His power and have peace, light, strength, knowledge, confidence, love, and joy, or we can go some other way, any other way, whatever other way, and go it alone—without His support, without His power, without guidance, in darkness, turmoil, doubt, grief, and despair. And I ask, which way is easier?"