Blessings are often accompanied by battles.
What is a battle to this flesh may well be beneficial to your spirit.
What is hard for the flesh is often helpful for your spirit.
If you serve God only at your convenience, then your service will lack commitment.
I'm not saying there will not be any commitment.
There may be partial commitment, not total commitment.
Do you know the problem here?
If your commitment to God is partial -
you’re serving God only at your convenience -
and you are confronted with a situation where your faith in Christ conflicts
with traditional belief,
with cultural expectations,
with the pressures of position,
with the affairs of this world...
If your commitment to God is partial and you face such a conflict,
you are likely to remain indifferent, to try and sit on the fence
especially when holding to your faith involves some pain, some sacrifice.
But if you try to avoid pain in the flesh, you will soon invite pain in the spirit.
Because what starts with complacency will soon end with compromise.
It's only a matter of time.
The road of compromise is never ending and ever widening.
That is why when it comes to the things of God, the service of God -
we must be wholehearted.
Total commitment, not partial.
We don't just serve God when it's convenient for us.
We don't just serve God when times are good. No!