FAITH CAPSULE: Are you compromising the word of God?

1 Samuel 2:1-36

Consciously or unconsciously do you compromise God’s command?
Before God, there is no legitimate excuse not to do according to His word.
To compromise God’s command will complicate a man’s journey of life.
Compromising God will violate man before God.
To compromise God’s command is an indication of a lack of fear for God, that opens the door for the devil. Proverbs 3:7 warns, “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.”
To do as commanded by God is doing good that counts before God. One that knows to do good and not do is compromising God’s command as a sinner before God. (James 4:17)
With understanding, all man should know not to compromise God’s word to impress any man (inside or outside of church) and not to impress any family or friends. 
The Bible records how Eli’s children compromised God’s word that counted against Eli’s failure not to have trained his children enough before God.
1 Samuel 2:12-15 records, “Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they did not know the LORD. And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling. Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So, they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”
Sons of Eli does not know God when they actively engaged themselves in the sacrifices without restraint from Eli their father. Compromising the word of God by the sons of Eli was recorded as a great sin before God. Eli did not do enough to restrain the evil acts of his sons despite his position as Priest and father. 
When God called on Samuel, at a young age, God identified to Samuel the sin and judgment of Eli stating, “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 3:12-13) Eli’s failure not to act enough against the wrongdoing of his children counted against him and corrupted his destiny. 
Come out of all the evil which you know about; refrain from being carried along with compromising God’s command or stand to correct compromising God’s command.
No man under heaven that compromises the word of God to arrive at God’s divine assignment in the journey of life.
Gain understanding and knowledge in the word of God to live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand over your life not to be a failure.