Dangerous Compromise

Bible Reading: Exodus 8:25-30
Focus verse: "So humble and submit yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7

Moses confronted Pharaoh and did as the Lord commanded.  All the doors shut in his face.  Did you ever step out in obedience to the Lord and find that doors shut to you?  This is a time to keep your eyes and your faith on God.  Continue to do as the Lord commands, refuse the compromise and wait for God's timing to open doors.  Pharaoh offered for them to go into the wilderness, but not to leave the land.  Satan does not want us to go too far from our old lifestyle.  Later, Pharaoh asks them to go, but to leave their flocks and in Exodus 10:26 But Moses replied "not a hoof will be left behind."  Moses was confronted repeatedly with the opportunity for compromise, but he refused to move from what God had told him.  Satan doesn't want you to go too far in following Christ and will be relentless in his attempts to get you to compromise.  HOLD FIRM.  Tell the devil that he gets nothing and God gets everything!

Before salvation, we were under the control of Satan even though we thought we were under our own control.  We didn't realize this because Satan is a liar.  After salvation, we can see the truth more clearly, but Satan hates our salvation so much that he will seek to tempt and manipulate, battle your godly decisions, and destroy our lives with his strategies.  One of his strategies is compromise.

God tells us to make a break with our past ruler, Satan, and not to be partners with those who live in the dark.  (2 Corinthians 6:14-17)  If we compromise, we remain in captivity.  A life lived in obedience will speak more to the unbelievers than a life of compromise.  And your children will respond to the life you lead more than the life you speak.

You can't negotiate with the Devil.  A hunter finds a bear and wants a fur coat but the bear wants to discuss the matter.  If the hunter does not shoot the bear, then the bear will eat the hunter and the hunter gets his fur coat, though he is dead inside of it.  That is how it is to compromise with the devil.  Compromise will not bring us to the place that God wants us, but leaves behind a destroyed life and regrets.

~Page Johnson
Interlocking Ministries

Extra reading: 2 Corinthians 6: 14-17 (The Message version) "Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way: “I’ll live in them, move into them;   I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people. So leave the corruption and compromise;  leave it for good,” says God.  “Don’t link up with those who will pollute you.  I want you all for myself. I’ll be a Father to you  you’ll be sons and daughters to me.” The Word of the Master, God."