(5/22/10 PRESSED IN... PERSEVERING THROUGH OUR TRIALS - 2 COR 4) Paul was pressed in - he was steadfast and in the battle to live out his God-given calling. "What about you? Are you in the battle? Or are you so foolish that you have only looked at the things that are seen? Are you completely given over to things that are temporal, to the making of money, and to the prosperity of business? Once things were different, you did stand true, but you thought the price was too much to pay and look at you now - no testimony, never at a prayer meeting no zeal for God! Yet one day you will lay all aside and leave everything behind and you do not know when. Have you given yourself to the temporal? Are you in the fight or have you given up?" - Alan Redpath