Survival is not an option!

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If we make survival the chief goal, we very often can survive, but what do we become in the process? To survive we pay the price of bondage. But if we can settle the issue of survival, we are truly free. Survival wasn’t the issue for Jesus. Jesus was willing to die, hence no one could make him do anything that would compromise his integrity or mission.
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To settle the issue of survival is freedom!The battle is the Lord’s. But if we choose to make the battle ours, and choose to make survival the goal of the battle, then we start to figure the angles, make subtle accommodations, compromise here and there, demote moral conviction, and do anything to win, to survive. What we need is a fundamental shift in the center of gravity in our lives from focusing on survival of ourselves to glorifying God, even in death.

This is an excerpt from an article that I read this morning. The link will take you to the whole thing. I have been thinking of it in relation to credit cards. Our society (the world ) sure makes it easy not to live by faith.

Summit day!

The supporter who was working on my laptop, before he cut into my motherboard with a dremel tool to try and install a different plug(risky), had his wife type my service number into the Dell database just for grins. Guess what? It showed that my warranty had expired(I knew that) but it also showed that I had three different extensions? After contacting the service dept and after multiple emails trying to convince them that I was indeed the origional owner. They had misspelled my street name by one letter on the origional shipping label. I found my paperwork after three years! Long story short- Dell sent a return box- I sent my laptop in and three days later I got it back with a new board, heatsink, fan, ac adapter, and the little rubber feet on the bottom! For free! Praise the LORD! We also had a Climbing for Christ supporter donate $5000 for ministry laptops! Showers of blessings! Kilimanjaro trip reports and photos can be seeen on the website http://www.climbingforchrist.org/