December 26, 2013
The word
compromise is a double faced word – it has its good side and the bad side.
Today, I want to address the bad one. I am talking of the kind of compromise
where people do what ethically and ordinarily they would not have done, but
they still go ahead to do it because of what they want to get.
We are always
faced with so many choices with so many conditions to either accept or reject.
It is not a matter of whether you are a believer or not, such times would
always come and the pressure to compromise would be so heavy. A young man by
the name Esau in Gen 25 came back home one day from the farm famished, he was
almost fainting. Suddenly, he saw his younger brother with some red pottage
with nice aroma. Before he could be given a small portion, he had to sell his
birth right to his younger brother.
On the other
hand, in Gen 39, a young man with good prospect was presented with a so called
juicy opportunity when the wife of the most powerful man in Egypt – Potiphar
asked him to sleep with her. He knew that if he slept with her, he would be
highly placed in the palace and well respected but he said, “because thou art
his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
Joseph
refused to compromise and as such God lifted him up so much that Pharaoh said
in Gen 41:40 that, “Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word
shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.”
Had Joseph compromised, he would have settled for less and lost the best of God
for his life.
I am urging
someone today, don’t compromise with sin. It will only sink you in deeper shame
and trouble and calamity. Why don’t you use today to box our sin out of your
life.
Happy Boxing
Day!
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