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Car shopping is always interesting…  My minivan has 150k miles on it so we are looking into purchasing a new to us car.  You give the sales person a price and they always show you vehicles that are just a little above that price.  Then, somehow, you are looking at a new car that is on “sale” and way above our originally state price range.  Sigh… 

How often do we do something like that in real life?  We have a plan, a course of values, and then we compromise a little bit, then a little more, and then a little more and soon, our values (or price range) are out the window.  We give a little with our morality, and then the next thing that we know; our original morals are out the window.  The world is like a car sales person, it is okay to do this, it is okay to do that…  For just a little more of this, you can be accepted here or there…  For just a little more compromise, you will get acceptance here or there…. 

Seeing how good sales people work, it amazes me (the bad ones amaze me too, but in a different way).  The world tells us that we are closed minded, that we need to be more accepting and that we need to agree with their points of view. 

The Bible says in Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will”. 

I don’t want to be one who compromises, who takes bits and pieces of the Bible and decides what to follow.  I want to be one that takes God and His word at what it is and follows it.  I want to ensure that I am being Jesus to those that need it, spreading His word, and His love and His message.  I want to have God look at my life and see it like Matthew 25.  I want to be the one that takes what he gave me and invests into the world, and makes a bigger profit.  That takes the live He gave me and makes it worthwhile instead of just burring it in the ground and hiding it because I am afraid.  I don’t want to compromise and not be able to see the starting price.  What I originally said that I was going to do and be when I accepted God into my life.  Don’t compromise! 
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