Friday, October 10, 2008

compromise

to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize: a military oversight that compromised the nation's defenses.

indecisive : characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.

these are two things that would not go well with an uncompromising faith that has a decided stance

two things i have in my character

i think they express themselves moreover in my relationships

i compromise my likes and dislikes for others dislikes and likes.

thats not making decisions but being in an undecided state.

following Christ requires a decided position - in those places where there is no decision for example on whether not to love someone then the decisiveness of the truth of Christ gets compromised

that is something i learned about myself: i am tempted to put people above christ

when moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it in Numbers 20 the Lord said " Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them" somewhere along the line they(addressed to Aaron also) thought they knew what they were doing... they did get the water.
God is so holy that even in our best moments of knowing what to do we still need to go to him
there is more to holiness than i have seen and thought about before

my ending thought is there may be smaller things in life that compromise belief in a Holy God

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