I'll Only Ever Give My All

When someone encounters the Lord, they make a radical change to their lifestyle due to a radical change of their heart.  However, over time we do what we like to call 'finding a balance' in our life.  In other words we find a way to live to the world and God at the same time and be okay with it.  This is the right way to live as a Christian right? You don't want to offend anybody by actually living out what you believe or anything. Except in reality, this is just our way of deciding what compromise we think is okay in our lives. It's our way of justifying the parts of ourself that is not of Christ. And that should not be the way that the Church operates. Jesus said that we cannot live for 2 masters because we will grow to hate one and love the other (Luke16:13). So why are we convinced that we know better and we are more mature than the people back in those days and are now capable of living for the God and still being a part of this world. We aren't called to be a part of this world! We are called to consecrate ourselves for the Lord's purpose, to know Him, love Him, and live for Him. I'm recently discovering how much the Church today really does justify their friendship with the world by calling it a balanced lifestyle. We think that we need to become 'mature' in our faith and learn how to keep in under control. But is that the type of life that we want? I know it's not the life that I want. In James 4:4 it says that friendship with the world is enmity towards God. I definitely don't want to be an enemy of my God. I am not going to accept even small compromises in my life that conflict with my relationship with my Savior. I am nothing with out Him. "Who gave him charge over the earth,and who laid on him the whole world? If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust." -Job 34:13-15 (ESV)  I will live only for Him because it is only by Him that I live.