FAITH CAPSULE: Compromise will terminate man in the journey of life.

Romans 12
 
Conformity to this world will take away man’s commitment. If being committed to the things and work of God becomes inconvenient, then convenience will take over your commitment to God. Romans 12:2, And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Questions: Have you been acting in accordance with current customs and modes of the world around you? Do any of your values correspond in form or character with the world around you? Are you complying or in constant agreement, or accord, with the world around you? The word of God encourages watching and praying. Are you watching for all the signs that can line you up in conformity with the world around you? For example, compromising with the world is a way of complicating one’s life. Compromise will terminate man in the journey of life. Eli’s sin before God was because he compromised. God revealed unto Samuel the sin of Eli, “Then the Lord said to Samuel: “Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.” (1 Samuel 13:11-13) Eli’s sin was the iniquity which he knows and not the iniquity which he committed. He compromised by knowing and not doing anything to stop his children from their sin. When you conform to wicked ones it becomes a compromise. God will not lower His standard and requirement for salvation. Can you imagine a computer? There will be no amount of effort for one to log into a file or folder if one lack the right password. There is a password to heaven and that password is to live the ways of God without any compromise, and one will end up in the will of God. Your battle ground is your mind. The mind is where the enemy targets. The enemy knows that when the mind is taken, you are a done deal. It is evident in the word of God that the mind is the prime target of the enemy. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” This clarifies why one should be allowing a constant renewing of one’s mind, being active by constantly spending time on the word out of one’s convenience time.
 
Prayer for today: Ask for the Spirit of God to take charge and rule your life.