DO NOT COMPROMISE YOUR CONVICTIONS
1 Kings 11:3-6 (TLB) 3 He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines; and sure enough, they turned his heart away from the Lord, 4 especially in his old age. They encouraged him to worship their gods instead of trusting completely in the Lord as his father David had done. 5 Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the horrible god of the Ammonites. 6 Thus Solomon did what was clearly wrong and refused to follow the Lord as his father David did.
COMPROMISE CAN DIVIDE OUR LOYALTY
Matthew 6:24 (TLB)"You cannot serve two masters: God and money. For you will hate one and love the other, or else the other way around.
COMPROMISE CAN KEEP US FROM DOING WHAT IS RIGHT
Mark 15:15 (TLB) Then Pilate, afraid of a riot and anxious to please the people, released Barabbas to them. And he ordered Jesus flogged with a leaded whip, and handed him over to be crucified.
COMPROMISE CAN WEAKEN FAITH
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (TLB) 14 Don’t be teamed with those who do not love the Lord, for what do the people of God have in common with the people of sin? How can light live with darkness? 15 And what harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a Christian be a partner with one who doesn’t believe? 16 And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For you are God’s temple, the home of the living God, and God has said of you, "I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people." 17 That is why the Lord has said, "Leave them; separate yourselves from them; don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you 18 and be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient.” James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.
Source of Scripture and Headings: NLTse Bible Verse Finder, Holy Bible, New Living Translation, 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Database © 2005 WORDsearch Corp.
