What is your bottom line? What is it that you will not compromise even if your life was at stake? Or is simply living the most important thing in your life?

As someone has said, “Unless you are living for something worth dying for, you are not really living.” I think there is truth to that. Biblically, it certainly is true. We are told that Christians are those who live for God. And they show it by their willingness to die for God. That means their life’s purpose is more than simply existing. Their life points to something beyond this world into something eternal. Do you live for such a thing?

Daniel was such a man. When a new law was passed in his land that no one is to pray to anyone other than to the king, Daniel ignored it and continued to pray to his God as he has always done. And he didn’t even do this in hiding although he could have. He did it with his window open so that he could be seen breaking the law. He trusted God with his life. He probably figured that this is a hill that he is willing to die on fighting. That is where he drew the line. He was willing to die for this issue.

Do you have such a hill that you are willing to die on? Something that you will not compromise even if your life was threatened? What if your family’s lives were threatened? Is it something even greater than the survival of your family?

Live for such a thing. Do not waste your life living for something you are not willing to die for. That which you spend the most time on, where you draw most pleasure from, plan your life around is what you are living for. Are you willing to die for it?

PH