Compromise is giving up something; hoping to better a situation that is seemingly too rigid to live up to or accept as the only avenue of right.
As a builder, if I were to compromise my integrity by constructing buildings with inferior materials to save money, I’m putting people’s lives at risk. Where is the logic or moral responsibility in this? I may have increased my bank account today, but at what expense later? Be sure your sins will find you out is my philosophy.
Because something appears right in a twisted mind of greed, or in the blinded eyes that peer through rose colored glasses, it doesn’t make wrongs right. Compromise will raise its ugly head one day and justice will be served either on earth or in the here-after. We cannot compromise and expect blessings to follow. It doesn’t work this way.
Compromise is only a ten letter word, but it is a word that can destroy a belief system, faith, peace, joy, communion with God, and possible death of the soul. It can lead to a host of negative behaviors that a person asks themselves in the end, “How did I get here?”
Where does compromise take a person? It can take them away from God; the worse journey possible; a powerless trip; undisciplined and hard. Compromise insures defeat in the long run; physically, mentally, materially and spiritually.
Let’s not fool ourselves. We reap what we sow. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” vs. 8 “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting,” (Galatians 6:7, 8).\
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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