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.