The Catastrophic Course of Compromise

Compromise is a catastrophic course to follow.  It doesn't seem so terrible at first. No calamities seem forthcoming; in fact, life seems smoother and everyone seems to like you a little more. From then on, whatever's popular, you go for, whether you agree with it or not. "After all," you say, "that seems to be how you get somewhere in this world."  It's amazing what a few little changes here and there in your lifestyle can do. That's right, my friends, it is. It's truly amazing when you find that after following this pleasant path for bit, although you may have every comfort life can offer, you have become a person without principles, without a strong character. You seem to be as unstable and weak as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matthew 11:7, Luke 7:24). Not only that, the treasures gained no longer seem as grand.

When one considers that "...we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out" (1 Timothy 6:7), and that "...the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up" (2 Peter 3:10), is the world's applause, the world's stuff, really worth sacrificing the truth for, which, when cherished, endows a man not only with happiness but with the purist sort of character there is? No.

Let us then look carefully at every thing we do, and determine whether doing it is upholding the truth and forging characters of steel, or whether it tears it down and leaves us bereft of the only thing we may take with us in the end.

The LORD promises, "I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir" (Isaiah 13:12), but we need to cooperate by sticking by Him and His truth no matter what the cost. Are you willing?

Blessings,
Jean