Daily Devotional Cost of Victory Average reading time is about 0 and a half minutes And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. Acts 5:41 Christ sacrificed everything for man, in order to make it possible for him to gain heaven. Now it is for fallen man to show what he will sacrifice on his own account, for Christ's sake, that he may win immortal glory. Those who have any just sense of the magnitude of salvation, and of its cost, will never murmur that their sowing must be in tears, and that conflict and self-denial are the Christian's portion in this life.