King David - A Man After God's Own Heart!
The subject: Compromise
I
have a book about compromise which I bought because of a
sermon I heard on the radio on my way home one night. The
Pastor talked about how so often we are willing to accept small tiny
compromises and find a way to justify these little indescreptancies in
our lives.
He
talked about how
the person who commits the larger sins, and he used adultery as one of
his examples. His point was that a man doesn't just one day
suddenly commit adultery (or whatever other topic you want to insert
here), but his failure instead starts through a series of small
compromises, which get a little bigger each time until one day he
commits the big compromise.
I was
recently listening
to a a radio program where the Pastor answers Bible questions from
callers, and the topic was the little lies that Kind David told while
he was running from King Saul...and although I have a great deal of
respect for the Pastor, he sort of justified King David's lies (long
story which I won't go into here).
As I
sat and pondered his answer, not feeling especially
comfortable with it, the book on compromise came back into the
forefront of my memory, and I realized that this series of lies that
Kind David told were his series of compromise that led to his eventual
adultery and murder.
Carefully
consider if you may have small compromises in your life. These are a yeast in
our Christian walk, and will grow until they lead us to a greater
compromise, and we find that we have fallen on our face. Let
us search ourselves and seek out the small things which may need
addressing. Kind David was a man after God's own heart.
If he can fall, surely we can too. We can avoid
these things if our mind is but focused on the things of God.
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