But if I accept Christ, I'll have to stop doing all the fun stuff ...

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased."   

-- C.S. Lewis

Leave it to C.S. Lewis to tell it exactly as it is.  Here is another great anecdote, taken from John Tolson's and Larry Kreider's book, The Four Priorities:

Ira Yates owned a sheep ranch in West Texas, but wasn't able to make enough on his ranching operation to pay the principal and interest on the mortgage.  As time passed, he risked losing his ranch.  Eventually, he had to live on a government subsidy.  Day after day, as the sheep grazed on the rolling West Texas hills, he wondered how he would pay the bills.  Then a seismographic crew from an oil company came into the area and told him there might be oil on his land.  They asked permission to drill a well and he signed a contract. 

At 1,115 feet they struck oil - big time!  The first well came in at 80,000 barrels a day.  Many subsequent wells produced twice as much.  In fact, 30 years after the discovery, a government test on one of the wells showed that it still had the potential to yield 125,000 barrels of oil a day.  And Yates owned it all!  Actually, he owned it all on the day he purchased the land.  Yet he had been living on government relief.  A multimillionaire living in poverty!  The problem?  He didn't know about the riches lying beneath his feet and he lacked the ability to get to it.  

In the Holy Spirit, you have more energy for living the Christian life than you could possibly imagine.  It's as if you are sitting on an undiscovered oil well.  Sadly, too many followers of Christ are living below the poverty level when they have unbelievable resources available to them.  Just imagine the impact we could have if only we would allow the spirit of God to fill us and flow through us!  

Now that you know about the abundant life available to you (see John 10:10*), don't overlook the huge reservoir of spiritual riches waiting to be tapped.  God stands ready to help you reach the incredible wealth that is yours.

* "... I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10