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Pressure is what makes diamonds. It can also greatly affect your gas mileage and at today’s prices that makes it almost like diamonds! Paul said they were pressured on every side. Did you know that as a believer in Christ you are pressured from every side as well?

Some of the pressure is subtle pressure. It is just there all the time waiting for an opportunity to attack. It is like the road on your tires. It is always there and as long as you keep the pressure on the inside up, everything rolls along pretty steady. You of course need to watch out for things along the road that could puncture from the outside.

If you let the pressure get to low, that road will begin to win. It will work on that tire until it weakens it and eventually it will blow out. Can you see any sort of a spiritual picture here?

As long as we keep our inside pressure up we do pretty well. The Holy Spirit is like having an air compressor hooked up at all times. If we stay plugged it, it will automatically adjust things for us. However, if we don’t pay attention we can end up affected by the temperature of things around us. The enemy is like the road, always there and just waiting for his opportunity. He knows if our pressure is low. He knows just what to do to wear us out. He knows our weak areas better than we do!

A good tire with good pressure can hit some pretty tough spots and hardly be affected at all. Remember; when we put on Christ we all have the same potential to be good vessels. Our attention to what we keep inside determines how we withstand the pressure from the outside.

In the Holy Spirit applied Bible it has a note telling how we are letter to the world from Jesus. Our actions tell how important He is in our lives. Well I can think of a few occasions where my actions or reactions to things made it appear that Jesus was not really all that important. I am thankful that God is quick to forgive when we repent.

I encourage you to join me in declaring that Jesus is too important in life for me to allow pressure from the outside to overcome His Spirit that is in me. That means that I need to have more and more of Him and less and less of me. That means that me has to die daily to make more room for His life in me. The me in me is like old air. It cannot withstand new pressure. The air that Jesus breathes in me can withstand anything that comes at me.

You can be sure the pressure is out there. You can be just as sure that you will not be crushed if you keep right pressure inside.