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Blessings are often accompanied by battles.

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What is a battle to this flesh may well be beneficial to your spirit.

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What is hard for the flesh is often helpful for your spirit.

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If you serve God only at your convenience, then your service will lack commitment.

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I'm not saying there will not be any commitment.

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There may be partial commitment, not total commitment.

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Do you know the problem here?

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If your commitment to God is partial -

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you’re serving God only at your convenience -

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and you are confronted with a situation where your faith in Christ conflicts

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with traditional belief,

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with cultural expectations,

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with the pressures of position,

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with the affairs of this world...

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If your commitment to God is partial and you face such a conflict,

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you are likely to remain indifferent, to try and sit on the fence

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especially when holding to your faith involves some pain, some sacrifice.

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But if you try to avoid pain in the flesh, you will soon invite pain in the spirit.

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Because what starts with complacency will soon end with compromise.

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It's only a matter of time.

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The road of compromise is never ending and ever widening.

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That is why when it comes to the things of God, the service of God -

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we must be wholehearted.

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Total commitment, not partial.

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We don't just serve God when it's convenient for us.

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We don't just serve God when times are good. No!