A father took his daughter to a carnival where he taught her the following lesson. Connected to the heights and fun of seeing the world from the top of the Ferris wheel is also the disappointment of the bottom. On the Ferris wheel up and down is one. If you ride it up you have to ride it down.
In the ocean the farther you go into the water the less control you have over the currents. We don't understand the currents passing through us and we are always looking for something stronger than the currents (what punishes us) to protect us, (relationships, job, money). The currents aren't too strong but we have accepted our weakness and become beggars of a world that will continue to betray us.
Where do we find real strength? Through sacrifice! How do people become outstanding or masters of anything? The strength comes through sacrifice. Presently we sacrifice to the wrong God. Our lives are one compromise after another. We only compromise because we don't realize we have a choice. We think up is outside of us. The more we compromise the less possibility there is to learn. If you make a mistake make it 100%, then you have no one to blame but yourself. Mark, "If a house is divided against itself it cannot stand". We are created to live an uncompromising life.
Once there was a little heavenly body and the system he was part of, fell apart and everything went its own way and it was all alone. The little heavenly body went everywhere looking for another system to belong to but every system it came upon wanted something from it, it said it would put the heavenly body first but it was illusion. It was really the planet of "me first". The heavenly body was made up of gases and it didn't know it had everything it needed inside of itself. One day it noticed a system it had never seen before. It was unlike any other. It just extended its magnetic nature out. It didn't want anything from the heavenly body. After many trials and tribulations the little heavenly body came back to this system and joined itself to it. Many rogue planets came by and called to it but the little heavenly body had, had enough experience to realize it could offer it nothing. And each time a rogue body came by and it was tempted, it felt something pulling it in and something pulling it out and the pressure got so great some of the gasses ignited and changed its form.
When you live in the system of God everything will try to pull you out but each time it will create a heart that won't ever compromise. God's system turns all heavenly bodies into stars so they never have to compromise again. The heavenly body could either compromised itself and be important in another system or it could sacrifice itself and have God's life first. One temporary relationship or an eternal marriage. At all times we can work at living with something that allows everything to pass through it and begin to be part of one thing first. No more compromise. Stop finding a way to live with negative states. No more deals. Have one life that is true, that is the eternal up.