I wrote this post back in 2015. I haven’t published anything since 2018. Perhaps I’ll pick up the blog again and give it a go. Enjoy this one . . . it hits me square in the gut.

May I ask you a question? What is your price? Have you identified your price point? The price point is the decisional crossroad where we will sell out our personal holiness for personal gain of some sort; it might be financial gain, pleasure of some kind, a power grab, you name it.

Because you are in a relationship with others, you inevitably exert influence. Some of us operate from positional authority:  we exert over others because of our position (manager, parent, etc.) Others exert influence from moral authority: this is the influence or authority we exert because others believe in and trust us.

As a person of influence, we need to identify the price points that will sabotage our influence in the lives of others. We can very easily move from influencing others for good to influencing them for bad because we have sold out.

There are three questions you can ask to help you identify your price point:

• What do I find myself thinking about the most?
• As I look in the rearview mirror of my life, in what area of my life have I caved to temptation most often?
• What destructive habits have I had little to no success stopping? Where in my life am I experiencing the most desolation in my soul when I cave into these destructive habits?

It might be we already know our price point but have not faced them squarely with any real intention of dealing with them.